25048: Mayas: Children of Imprisoned Haitian Leader Yvon Neptune Make Moral Appeal for His Release (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: jocelyne mayas <makandale@yahoo.com>
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> Center for Constitutional Rights
> 666 Broadway - Room 607
> New York, NY
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> May 9, 2005
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> Press Advisory and Announcement of Press Conference
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> For Immediate Release
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> Children of Imprisoned Haitian  Leader Make Moral
> Appeal for His Release
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> 	According to published reports Haiti’s former Prime
> Minister Yvon Neptune is hovering near death on a
> hunger strike to protest being detained without
> formal
> charges for 10 months. Despite a growing outcry from
> the international community, Haiti’s Interim
> Government has refused to release Neptune, insisting
> that he must travel to St. Marc for a hearing before
> a
> Judge. Mr. Neptune, who served as Prime Minister in
> the government of ousted President Jean Bertrand
> Aristide,  has been accused of “masterminding” what
> Aristide opponents have termed a “massacre” in a
> small
> village near St. Marc during the turmoil which
> erupted
> in February of last year.  However, the Interim
> Government has produced no evidence that Mr. Neptune
> committed a crime, and an investigation by the U.N.
> Human Rights Commission in Haiti concluded that the
> deaths that occurred were a result of a
> “confrontation” between pro-and anti-Aristide
> forces.
> Mr. Neptune recently refused an offer to leave the
> country to receive medical treatment unless he was
> released unconditionally.
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> 	Fearing for the life of their father, Mr. Neptune’s
> daughter Maryonne Neptune and his son Terrence
> Neptune
> have called a press conference for Wednesday May
> 11th,
> 10:00 A.M., 666 Broadway, 6th floor (between
> Bleecker
> and Bond Sts.), to issue an urgent moral appeal to
> the
> Interim Government to release him.  “This is not
> about
> politics,” Maryonne stated. “Our family has seen my
> father suffer too long. It’s not right that he
> should
> die like this for no reason.”  According to Terrence
> Neptune, “my father loves his country and he does
> not
> deserve to be treated like this. We are asking all
> people of good will to join us in this appeal that
> my
> father be released on humanitarian grounds.”
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> 	The Press Conference will be hosted by the Center
> for
> Constitutional Rights, which has long taken an
> interest in issues affecting Haiti and has offered
> to
> provide legal advice to Mr. Neptune based on its
> expertise in international law.
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> Notice of Press Conference
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> When: May 11, 2005, 10:00 A.M.
> Where: The Center for Constitutional Rights, 666
> Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 602
> Subject: Appeal for the Release of Former Prime
> Minister Yvon Neptune
> Principals: Maryvonne Neptune and Terrence Neptune,
> son and daughter of Yvon Neptune
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> For further information contact: Ron Daniels, Exec.
> Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
>  – 212-614-6468 or 917-690-7525 (cell).
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