Petition to the Government of Haiti for an End to the Persecution of Internationally Championed Human Rights Attorney Mario Joseph

Following the tragic incident happened Saturday evening at the faculty of Law and Economics (FDSE) which caused the death of the 4th year student, Damaël D'Haïti, Pierre Paul Macéus (agent of the National Penitentiary Administration) prime suspect in the death of Damaël, was heard, Tuesday, November 13, 2012, by Me Lucmane Delille, the Government Commissioner who declared, to have enough evidence confirming the involvement of the young officer, for his indictment and having transmitted the file to cabinet of instruction for law suits. In addition, the Commissioner stated that the weapon [of unknown origin] used by the Agent Macéus, had not been found by the investigators of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ).

Paperback, 296 pages

The scheme was simple. In Haiti in 1975 greedy and corrupt members of the Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier regime faked exquisite renderings of bird watercolors by native son Jean-Jacques Audubon and put them on the world market. A government lawyer and stamp collector reported the suspicious stamps. The Duvalier government had to stage a public trial. Several government officials were sent to jail and the international collectors were satisfied. The trial was an important demonstration of courageous lawyers and judges. However the principal crooks were not revealed and the officials who were jailed were compensated well and were released early from their comfortable jails. Thus it was proven again in Duvalierist Haiti, which was about prisons, cruelty, and violence, that crime paid. 26 years later, Jean Sénat Fleury, former Haitian judge and legal scholar decided to make this trial available to the new generations of students of justice and those interested in Haitian history.

RESPONDING TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS

Whereas on June 19, 2012, President Michel Joseph Martelly has promulgated in the Haitian government official newspaper denominated “ Le Moniteur”’ an amendment to the actual Constitution of 1987. First this petition takes into account that such amendment was given to Mr Martelly by the previous President Mr.Rene Preval who did not want to handle such duty himself but left it to the actual president to execute. We also have to take into account that, during the previous administration, such amendment was voted upon and passed by a majority vote by the two (2) chambers (upper and lower) of the Haitian parliament.

Port - au Prince, may 29, 2012-(AHP) - Commissioner of the Government of the Croix-des-Bouquets, Mr. Mario Beauvoir was relieved of his duties. It is the person himself who confirmed the new, specifying receiving his layoff letter Tuesday.



In this correspondence addressed to him by the responsible Minister, Mr. Jean Renel Sanon, he says he learned that he is "laid off, pending the results of the investigation around fact alleged against him would be", without other details.

But for Me Beauvoir, the reasons for his release has the ecart are clear.

JUSTICE AND CORRUPTION: Corruption is obviously a phenomenon as old as the world, but had not been a dominant concern of the Haitian State until very recently. Nearly a decade ago, the phenomenon became an important topic in political, socio-economic and judicial debates both on the national level and international level, and was the subject of intense media scrutiny. But even though corruption is not a new phenomenon, the nature, degree and extent of measures aimed at controlling it and bringing it to an end have yet to be found.

The United Nations today voiced its con­cern at reports that for­mer Hait­ian Pres­i­dent Jean-Claude Duva­lier may not face charges relat­ing to the seri­ous human rights vio­la­tions that took place dur­ing his 15-year rule, while stress­ing that jus­tice must be ensured for the victims.

Paperback, 296 pages

The scheme was simple. In Haiti in 1975 greedy and corrupt members of the Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier regime faked exquisite renderings of bird watercolors by native son Jean-Jacques Audubon and put them on the world market. A government lawyer and stamp collector reported the suspicious stamps. The Duvalier government had to stage a public trial. Several government officials were sent to jail and the international collectors were satisfied. The trial was an important demonstration of courageous lawyers and judges. However the principal crooks were not revealed and the officials who were jailed were compensated well and were released early from their comfortable jails. Thus it was proven again in Duvalierist Haiti, which was about prisons, cruelty, and violence, that crime paid. 26 years later, Jean Sénat Fleury, former Haitian judge and legal scholar decided to make this trial available to the new generations of students of justice and those interested in Haitian history.