Friday, March 11, 2011
Press note from the AJH
Submitted to AlterPresse March 11, 2011
The Association of Haitian Journalists (AJH) condemns the aggressive and threatening Michael Joseph Martelly against journalists participating in a televised debate, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The terms used by the presidential candidate recalled that in a time not too long ago, a president of the republic had shown such aggressiveness to a question from a journalist at the National Palace.
These grow about AJH remember the number of journalists and media who have been victims of violence during the movements, on behalf of Joseph Michel Martelly, after the publication of preliminary results of the first round of legislative and presidential , December 7, 2010.
Faced with these acts, the Association of Haitian Journalists expresses its concerns regarding the respect for freedom of the press in the event of a presidency of Joseph Michel Martelly.
The AJH, calling for restraint, also reminds all journalists and all media to the absolute obligation upon them to treatment and for responsible reporting of information in this particular context of life National.
The AJH believes in democracy and the establishment of a state law guaranteeing the free and responsible exercise of the information profession.
Jacques Desrosiers
Secretary GeneralFriday, March 11, 2011
Group statement Médialternatif, dated March 11, 2011
Group Médialternatif (GM) takes very seriously the threats to the editor and journalist of his online agency AlterPresse, Gotson Peter, and by extension the entire corporate journalism, the presidential candidate Joseph Michel Martelly during the televised debate Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
Asked about his management capacity in reference to a public folder on its debts to American banks and its ability to assume its responsibilities, Martelly a tantrum and announced, “the Kite vini / yo Se Voye Voye l / M ap tann li “(Let’s ask inappropriate questions / It is a mission sponsored / I’m ready to face).
Martelly has explicitly referred to possible reprisals from “the street”.
Are we to believe that Martelly has a list of reporters he does not condone or he believes act against him?
The serious candidate statements can be viewed, rightly, as threats to freedom of the press and expression, which are acquired on 7 February 1986, when the fall of the bloody dictatorship of Duvalier.
GM salutes the vigilance of the national and international press, which noted these discrepancies, and invites all of the corporation and the whole society to take effect of the position of aggression against media and journalists, posted by Martelly , who is seeking the presidential seat of the republic.
Médialternatif Group reserves the right to take appropriate measures against the resurgence of institutional threats to the free exercise of journalism, guaranteed by the Constitution of March 29, 1987.
For the Management Council GM
Ronald Colbert
Articles above come from these links:http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article10734And: http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article10737
