Haitian university students denounce police brutality
Haitian university students denounce police brutality
Port-au-Prince, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) Haitian students today criticized the systematic use of live ammunition to disperse the recent demonstrations of university students against kidnapping, and described the events as police brutality.
The Zafè etidyan ayisyen (Haitian Student Affairs) association denounced that a colleague was hit by a bullet during last Monday s protests demanding the release of professor Abdias Édumé, kidnapped since mid-February. They also deplored that James Pierrin, a student of the Human Sciences Faculty, was shot in the neck on January 20 by security forces.
This organization, made up of students from the State University of Haiti, Episcopal University, Notre-Dame University and the University of Port-au-Prince, regretted the complicit silence of the authorities and stressed that the mission of the police is to protect the life and property
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