Human Rights Defenders Divided on DCPJ Wanted Notices
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 1 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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The executive director of RNDDH, Pierre Espérance, criticizes the Police's decision to issue wanted notices against former parliamentarians Nenel Cassy and Alfredo Antoine. According to Mr. Espérance, these individuals have known and public residences. It is abnormal to search for them like bandits.
The president of the Je Klere Foundation contradicts his human rights colleague. Attorney Samuel Madistin believes it is legitimate for these individuals to be sought by the DCPJ for criminal acts in the country.
“The judicial records of Nenel Cassy and Alfredo Antoine are not clean,” reminds Attorney Madistin. The lawyer specifies that if these two politicians have nothing to reproach themselves for regarding the atrocities committed in Kenscoff or elsewhere, they should defend themselves before a judge in a contradictory debate instead of using the media to make noise for nothing.
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