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US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer
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Publisher:  Reporters without Borders
Date Written:  07/02/2010
Year Published:  2010  
Resource Type:  Article

Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, had his camera confiscated by US marines while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince.

Abstract:  Three weeks after the earthquake, the Haitian press has just had its first serious run-in with the US military. Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste, had his camera confiscated by US marines yesterday while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Tabarre.

We urge culture and communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn-Lassègue to demand an explanation from the US military authorities.

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