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26925: Hermantin(news)Lawyer says Jean-Juste possibly has cancer (fwd)
From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>
Posted on Fri, Dec. 16, 2005
HAITI
Latin American & Caribbean Briefs
From Herald Wire Services
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Lawyer says Jean-Juste possibly has cancer
A jailed Catholic priest who had been considered a potential candidate for
Haiti's presidency may have cancer and should be released to seek medical
treatment in the United States, his lawyer said Thursday.
The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, a supporter of ousted Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has declined an examination by government doctors
because he doesn't trust them, attorney Bill Quigley told reporters outside the
jailed priest's church in the capital.
Dr. John Carroll, a supporter who examined Jean-Juste in jail, said the priest
has swelling in his neck and under his arms and an abnormal white blood cell
count, which are possible indications of cancer or an infection.
''Every day that goes by, we are wasting time,'' Carroll said. ``If this is
indeed cancer, his life is in danger.''