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Haiti Journalists Demand Justice for Murdered Colleague

Sandra Lemaire

   WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE - Hundreds of journalists wearing white
   T-shirts participated in a silent march Sunday to demand justice for
   their murdered colleague.

   "Haiti's citizens must be protected!" a representative of the Civilian
   Protection Office group said. "If things had changed after Vladjmir
   Legagneur (a journalist who died while reporting on gang activity in
   2018) went missing, Douz would be alive today. Justice for Douz!"

   Petion Rospide, whose nickname was Douz, worked as a radio host for RSF
   (Radio Sans Fin) in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. He was shot
   and killed as he made his way home after reporting on anti-corruption
   protests on June 10. Earlier in the day, angry protesters had targeted
   vehicles belonging to Radio-Tele Guinen, a popular station seen and
   heard nationwide and a former VOA Creole affiliate.

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