US EditionForbidden Stories: An Anti-Corruption Journalist's Murder in Haiti and a Prosecutor Above the Law
LES CAYES, HAITI, JUL 4 – Ronald Richemond faces charges after journalist Gary Tesse was murdered for exposing corruption and land theft, amid Haiti's highest global impunity rate for crimes against journalists, CPJ says.
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Forbidden Stories: An anti-corruption journalist's murder in Haiti and a prosecutor above the law
Haitian journalist Gary Tesse was murdered in October 2022. The man allegedly responsible is former Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, who is also accused of seizing and reselling large tracts of land to enrich himself. Forbidden Stories has picked up Tesse’s investigation where he left off, revealing the methods Richemond used to steal land with impunity.
In Haiti, the murder of a journalist who denounced corruption and a prosecutor above the law
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A murder, coupled with a voodoo ritual. The body of the journalist Gary Tesse, who has been missing for six days, was found on the night of October 24, 2022, on a beach in the bay of Les Cayes, south of Haiti. The corpse rendered by the waves was mutilated. His eyes were punctured, his tongue and sex were sliced. Abuses supposed to prevent the deceased's mind from returning to torment his assassins, said the popular belief. "It was the operating…
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