By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haiti’s incarceration rate of roughly 100 prisoners per 100,000 citizens in 2016 was the lowest in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, there is a systematic campaign underway for more prisons. Canada and Norway have each given one … Continue reading →
Dady Chery Haiti Chery Only a story about race, sex and money could have displaced from the headlines the sabre rattling from the United States, European Union, and Russia that had, for weeks, promised a bloodbath in Ukraine and … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Alan Blueford’s parents were forced to organize a press conference to demand the police and coroner’s reports that had not still not been released to them over two months after their son was shot to death by an Oakland Police Officer.
Continue reading →By Davey D, Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner Blog | twitter: @alyssa011968 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a town hall meeting in Oakland about the shooting of 18-year old Alan Blueford, attendees turned their backs on what they perceived to be lies from the police chief. A bullhorn called “Justice!” and got the response “For Alan Blueford.” Chris Moreland, the man who spoke into the bullhorn, is in jail on trumped up charges.
Continue reading →Interview of Drew Aiken, Defend Haiti | stophaitideportations.org | Press TV, YouTube. The U.S. has resumed the deportation of about 50 Haitians per month to Haiti since January 2011. Some of the deportees get detained in Haiti, including 34 year-old Wildrick Guerrier who died in prison of cholera. Many deportees have medical conditions for which they cannot get care or have U.S.-citizen children in the States whom they cannot support. Human Rights groups are calling for a consideration of humanitarian factors and a stop to the deportations.
Continue reading →By Staff, Witness Bahrain | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On February 9, 2012, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for peacefully calling for reforms, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja launched a hunger strike and vowed he would persevere until freedom or death.
Continue reading →ACLU PRESS RELEASE | Jessica Jones, WUNC. In a landmark decision, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks found intentional and systemic discrimination by state prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in capital cases and commuted the sentence of death-row prisoner Marcus Robinson to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Continue reading →By Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch. A judge has banned U.S. imports of sodium thiopental: the first drug in a cocktail of three drugs administered to kill prisoners on death row.
Continue reading →Joint Statement, Addameer, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Addameer and PHR-Israel fear that while Hana Shalabi was gravely ill from her hunger strike, she might have been coerced into ending this strike by a prevention of family visits and restriction of her access to physician and lawyers. UPDATE on April 5, 2012: Family reunited with Hana Shalabi in Gaza.
Continue reading →By Marcela Valente, IPS | Staff, Cuba Debate. The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are finally getting heard in court after 35 years of demanding their stolen grandchildren. Eight former officials of the brutal Argentinian dictatorship that began on March 24, 1976 and lasted 7 years, are accused of “taking, retaining, hiding and changing the identities of” 34 children born to political prisoners held in clandestine prisons during the dictatorship. UPDATE on Mar 27th: Closing arguments. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Allison Deger, Mondoweiss | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq joint statement | Vivien Sansour, YouTube. Despite Hana Shalabi’s immediate risk of death, the Israeli Prison Service refuses to transfer her to a hospital, and an Israeli military judge of the Court of Appeals has postponed yet again making a decision regarding the order of a four-month long administrative detention.
Continue reading →By Staff (sc/jg/jsr/mgt/jf), Prensa Latina | By Rachel Rickard Straus, Daily Mail. Pedro Pimentel, a former instructor of an elite Guatemalan military force called kaibiles, extradited from the US last July, has been sentenced to 6,060 years in prison for his role in killing 201 indigenous people in the Dos Erres massacre of December 6 to 8, 1982.
Continue reading →By Sophie Crowe, Palestine Monitor | Press Release from PHR-Israel, Addameer | KFC Monument | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hana Shalabi, a 30-year Palestinian, has been on a hunger strike since one month to protest her detention without charge in Israel’s HaSharon prison. Her health is in danger.
Continue reading →By Hilaire Yvince, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Psychology major Jaksy Fritzbert, from the School of Anthropology and a father of two, began a hunger strike on Mar 6, 2012 to protest his incarceration in Haiti’s National Penitentiary since February 24. The students say that this was a political arrest to intimidate them after they refused to allow Martelly and a group of armed men into an international symposium. (English | French)
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