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Daniel_Cheung
02-02-2010, 07:06 PM
Ten US Christians may face Haiti kidnapping charges
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/pl_afp/haitiquake_20100202020713

Ten members of a US Christian group could be charged with kidnapping minors and child-trafficking over an attempt to smuggle a group of children out of quake-hit Haiti, officials said.

Amid growing concern over the safety of hundreds of thousands of women and children left vulnerable after the January 12 quake, the ten could face trial in US court where, if convicted, they could face severe penalties.

Mazar Fortil, interim prosecutor for the main Port-au-Prince court, told AFP the group may also face a lesser charge of criminal conspiracy, but said it was "too early to tell" whether they will be transferred to the United States.

Haiti's Culture and Communications Minister Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said a Haitian judge would decide whether to transfer the case, but a first appearance for the group scheduled Monday was postponed because a Creole language interpreter had not been made available....

Daniel_Cheung
02-02-2010, 07:15 PM
Detained Americans questioned by Haitian judge
http://www.salon.com/wires/world/2010/02/01/D9DJI9H83_eu_germany_school_abuse/index.html

A Haitian judge on Tuesday was questioning a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries arrested trying to leave Haiti with a busload of children they gathered from the disaster zone.

The investigating magistrate queried the five women for several hours and will follow up with the five men on Wednesday, according to the Haiti's communications minister. No lawyers were present, and the Americans have yet to be charged....