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After 2+ Years in Prison, Hunger Striking Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is Freed

After 2+ Years in Prison, Hunger Striking Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is Freed

After more than two years in prison and a fifteen month hunger-strike, former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was freed Thursday. The most high profile political prisoner detained by the U.S.-backed interim government in Haiti, Neptune was jailed shortly after the 2004 coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. He was never charged with a crime. [includes rush transcript]

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