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Haitian Human Rights Activist Presumed Kidnapped

HeadlineAug 31, 2007

In Haiti, human rights groups have launched a campaign to free the grassroots activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine who has not been seen since August 12. He is presumed kidnapped. Pierre-Antoine is a member of the Lavalas Party, and the head of a Haitian human rights organization that advocates for victims of the 1991 and 2004 coups d’état against the democratically elected governments of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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