Action Alert

TASSC MEMBER MISSING

PLEASE HELP US TO FIND AND BRING HIM BACK

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Haitian Human Rights Activist Abducted

ACTION ALERT

The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) has reason to fear for the safety of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a Haitian human rights activist and the head of Fondasyon Trant Septanm, missing since August 12, 2007 after meeting with a U.S. delegation that was visiting Haiti.  Pierre-Antoine is in imminent danger of human rights abuse.  

According to an August 15, 2007 Associated Press report, police and supporters say Pierre-Antoine may have been kidnapped. Pierre-Antoine has received numerous death threats from the coup d'etat foreign intervention death squads, paramilitaries and their civil arm factions in Haiti throughout the years from 1991 to the present.  His organization keeps visible the grievances of the tens of thousands of Haitian victims of the 1991 and 2004 coup d'etat and has held regular presence every Wednesday at the Place des Martyrs au Champ de Mars in front of the National Palace.

To prevent Haiti from losing one more Haitian human rights activist to senseless political violence and repression, HLLN is urging that letters be written to the United Nations authorities and the Haitian Police.  Copies of the letters should be sent to major media outlets demanding that U.N and Haitian authorities take all necessary action and send a powerful signal to  Pierre-Antoine's kidnappers that the international community is deeply concerned about his fate.

PLEASE ACT

I. CALL AND WRITE Your REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS

• Ask them to write and call the office of:  

Thomas Shannon
Bureau of the Western Hemisphere
US Department of State

• Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121—

II.  CALL AND WRITE

United Nations
Tel.    (212) 963-4879
Email: presidentga58@un.org

UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
Tel:  011-509-244-9650-9660
Fax: 011-509-244-9366/67
Or, Fax, Office of General Secretary (New York) – (212) 963.4879

Hon. Bann Ki-moun, Secretary-General
United Nations
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Email:  inquiries@un.org
Press office: (509) 510-2563 ext. 6343

United States Embassy
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Telephones: 011-509-223-4711, or 222-0200 or 0354
Fax: 011-509-223-1641 or 9038