Eddy Jackson Alexis, the Secretary of State for Communication expresses his deepest concern at the difficulties encountered by many journalists and press workers, both in the capital and in provincial cities in the exercise of their profession allowing to the population to have access to quality information and independently.

The Secretary Alexis denounces with the last rigor all the attacks against the journalists and workers of the free press in a tumultuous conjuncture, materializing by verbal attacks and against their installations, insults, provocations and threat on their life.

While presenting his sympathies to the journalists victims as well as to their families https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-29140-haiti-flash-44-journalists-victims-of-repression-these-last-weeks-list.html , Eddy Jackson Alexis reaffirms the will of the Government to guarantee the irreducible freedom of the press, the right to information and political tolerance in accordance with the Constitution and the fundamental rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-29140-haiti-flash-44-journalists-victims-of-repression-these-last-weeks-list.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-29036-icihaiti-insecurity-unesco-condemns-the-killing-of-journalist-nehemie-joseph.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/article-28995-icihaiti-securite-rsf-extremement-preoccupee-par-les-attaques-de-journalistes-au-pays.html (in french)

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28826-haiti-flash-very-serious-incident-in-parliament-a-senator-fired.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28768-icihaiti-jacmel-a-journalist-stabbed.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27967-haiti-security-the-journalist-rospide-petion-murdered.html

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