06 January 2022 | AFP
Haitian police kill a journalist covering a protest
Shooting
Wilguens Louissaint, a local reporter, and Amady John Wesley, who worked for Montreal-based radio station Ecoute FM, were shot while reporting on the ground on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
A third journalist, who was with them at the time, escaped.
“We condemn in the strongest terms this criminal and barbaric act,” said Francky Attis, general director of Radio Ecoute FM, which employed Wesley.
His statement denounced the “serious attack on the rights to life” and on “journalists exercising their profession freely in this country.”
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