US EditionHaitian Newborn’s Death in DR Highlights Abuses in Migration System
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Haitian newborn’s death in DR highlights abuses in migration system
FORT-LIBERTE — It was just after 3 a.m. when 23-year-old Mélissa Jean-Baptiste began pounding on the metal door of the cell where she was detained with her weeks-old son. At the Haina Migrant Processing Center in the Dominican Republic, she begged officers to intervene — her newborn was no longer breathing. Hours later, a statement from the Dominican General Directorate of Immigration said the child experienced “acute respiratory distress, foll…
The investigation into the death of a newborn child at the Heinrich Lübke Regional Hospital in Diourbel underwent a major development with the arrest of the midwife on duty at the time of the incident. More than a month after the incident, the police officers of the Diourbel Central Police Station, headed by Chief Commissioner Younous Diédhiou, arrested, on Tuesday 25 November 2025, midwife F. Diarra, according to information from Seneweb. She w…
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