Lage Lovinsky - Free Lovinsky (On-line Petition) HLLN PressRelease/Urgent Action Requested: Tell whoever has taken Lovinsky Pierre Antoine that an international audience deeply concerned about the fate of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine is witnessing their actions. Help raise the international concern and visibility of this human rights violation case. Help save the life of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, stop his torture, prevent his execution. | HLLN's Urgent Action Requested, August 18, 2007 *************** Ezili Dantò's Note: Bwa Kayiman 2007 and the case of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine Pierre by Ezili Dantò, For Haitian Perspective, and The FreeHaitiMovement, August 23, 2007 *************** HLLN Alert: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is missing in Haiti, August 13, 2007 *************** Où est Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine? By From Edwige Romulus, August 13, 2007 *************** AUMOHD Alert: Di yo nou vle jwen Lovinsky VIVAN! (In French), Me. Evel Fanfan, AUMOHD, August 14, 2007 *************** We are urging for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Eugenia Charles and Jacob Francois, Human Rights Delegation, August 14, 2007 *************** SOVE LAVI LOVINSKY by Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil)| http://www.jafrikayiti.com *************** What are the authorities doing to find Lovinsky Pierre Antoine?, Ezili Dantò's Note, August 15, 2007 *************** The July 28, 2007 declaration of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine's Fondasyon Trant Septanm (in Kreyol, by Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Perspective, July 29, 2007 *************** Lovinsky Pierre Antoine on the Visit of Ban Ki Moun to Haiti (in French), by Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Perspective, July 31, 2007 *************** Haitian Activist Planning Senate Run Reported Missing, AP, August, 15, 2007 *************** Rights Advocate Missing In Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Hardbeatnews.com, August 15, 2007 *************** *************** Le dirigeant Lavalas Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine porté disparu, selon ses proches, Radio Kiskeya, August 15, 2007 ***************

Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!

It's Neither Hope nor Progress When the International Community is Running Haiti by Marguerite "Ezili Dantò" Laurent, Haitian Perspective, August 11, 2007
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Haitian Prisoner of Conscience returns home : Beloved "Mon Pere" Jean Juste Come Home, By Bill Quigley, August 23, 2007
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Media Lies and Real Haiti News, Aug. 12, 2007
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Moving On, Aug. 7, 2007
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Who is the man in dark glasses?
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Ezili Dantò's Note: Who benefits from silencing and eliminating Lovinsky Pierre Antoine? - HLLN continues its coverage and analysis of the abduction of Lovinksy Pierre Antoine in Haiti, August 23, 2007
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Darren Ell's interviews with Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, entitled "Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti," Part 1, dated Feb. 18, 2007 and Part 2, March 4, 2007

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Examples of Neocolonial Journalism
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“...…S'il s'agissait d’une disparution politique…La mort de Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine serait une declaration de guerre contre tous ceux qui luttent pour la democracie participative…......Le 29 Fevrier 2004, a ouvert la voix au kidnapping en Ayiti, comme en 1441 le Portugal avait ouvert - pour la premiere fois - le commerce de la traite des noires.” Commentaire de Franklin Ulysse, editorialiste : Ou est passe Lovinsky Pierre Antoine et qui est le serpent aux lunettes noires? |(mp3/ 6:29 - Emission Fanmi Lavalas, New York, Sept. 23, 2007)
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Ezili Dantò's Note- Allegedly there's a person who claims he saw Lovinsky after Lovinsky was taken( mp3/7:08, Emission Fanmi Lavalas, NY, Sept. 23, 2007)

(On-line Petition)
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HLLN Alert:Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is missing in Haiti

According to numerous reports from Haiti, received by HLLN today, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is missing in Haiti. He has not been seen since Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 10pm after meeting with a human rights delegation from the United States that is currently in Haiti. His car was found on Delma 10 in Port au Prince, "with his shirt and cds on the cushion."

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is the head of Fondation Trente Septembre, a Haitian human rights organization that has been advocating for the victims of the 1991 coup d'etat and the 2004 coup d'etat. His life has been threatened by the foreign intervention/coup d'etat forces many times. Anyone with any updated information, please copy erzilidanto@yahoo.com so we may share it with the Network.

Ezili Dantò
HLLN
August 13, 2007
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- HLLN Press Release: Help save the life of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, stop his torture, prevent his execution.
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Commentaire de Franklin Ulysse, editorialiste :
Ou est passe Lovinsky Pierre Antoine et qui est le serpent aux lunettes noires? |(mp3 6:29 - Emission Fanmi Lavalas, New York, Sept. 23, 2007)

Lage Lovinsky - Set Lovinsky Free,
Press Release: HLLN Urgent Action requested to stop the humanrights abuse of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine in Haiti , August 18, 2007
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HLLN Press Release: Tell whoever has taken Lovinsky Pierre Antoine that an international audience deeply concerned about the fate of Lovinsky Pierre
Antoine is witnessing their actions. Help raise the international concern and
visibility of this human rights violation case.

Contact: Marguerite Laurent, Esq. Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network at
erzilidanto@yahoo.com or 203 829 7210

FLASH, FLASH, FLASH - URGENT ACTION REQUESTED

HLLN requests that all reputable international human rights organization issue an urgent action alert for Lovinsky Pierre Antoine.

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. human rights delegation that was visiting Haiti. Pierre Antoine is in imminent danger of human rights abuse.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, The International Committee of the Red Cross, Reporters Without Borders and other such international human rights organizations should issue urgent action alerts to their networks, asking them to send letters, e-mails, faxes and telegrams to the UN and Haitian officials - whether it’s to the UN Secretary General, or to Hédi Annabi, or to the UN Military Commander in Haiti, U.S. Congressional members, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, the Haitian President or the Haitian police chiefs - who have the power and networks to stop the abuse.

According to an August 15, 2007 Associated Press report, police and supporters say Lovinsky Pierre Antoine may have been kidnapped.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine has received many 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.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine’s human rights work in Haiti is a threat to the coup d’etat orchestrators and supporters and to the UN occupying forces that
uphold the reign of the coup d’etat forces and their documentedly corrupt
police force. His organization, Fondasyon Trant Septanm keeps visible the
grievances of the tens of thousands of Haitian victims of the 1991 and 2004
coup d’etat/foreign interventions, their demands for Haitian sovereignty, for
justice and restitution and for the release of the political prisoners. Since
the first coup d'etat in 1991, Fondasyon Trant Septanm has held regular
pickets in Haiti every Wednesday at the Place des Martyrs au Champ de Mars in front of the National Palace.

We ask that Amnesty International and all reputable human rights organization
issue an urgent action alert on the missing Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, urging
the authorities to take all necessary action to find Lovinsky Pierre Antoine and
rescue him if he has been kidnapped. HLLN fears this is a political assassination to silence this human rights voice that is being COVERED UP under the mask of a kidnapping. (See below, the July 28, 2007 declaration of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine's Fondasyon Trant Septanm and Lovinsky Pierre Antoine on the visit of Ban Ki-Moun to Haiti asking for an end to the UN occupation of Haiti, return of President Aristide, release of the political prisoners, and justice for the victims of the 1991 and 2004 coup d'etats in Haiti.)

We ask that everyone concerned with human rights, civility, justice and
democracy and progress in Haiti, make their voices heard, add their networks, powers and strengths to helping raise the visibility of this case. Help save
the life of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, stop his torture, prevent his execution and protect this peerless Haitian human rights defender.

To prevent Haiti from losing one more Haitian human rights activist to senseless political violence and repression, we also urge all in our HLL Network to write individual letters to UN authorities and the Haitian police, et al…, with a copy to the major international media outlets, demanding they take all necessary actions and send the powerful signal to the kidnappers acting-out this political repression, that their actions are being witnessed by an international audience deeply concerned about the fate of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine.

Contact information is on our website, www.ezilidanto.com, under the law section, scroll down to “contact information sheet,” (some of this info may need updating) or see, key contact info provided below.


Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Chair, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
August 18, 2007
erzilidanto@yahoo.com

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1. Call Amnesty International at 212-807-8400, Human Rights Watch at
212-290-4700, The International Committee of the Red Cross (www.icrc.org) at 202 293 9430 and Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org) at 917-239-0653
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2. 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


3. Call the authorities in Haiti, at (011):

Haitian Ministry of Justice - 509-245-0474

Direction Departementale De L'Ouest ("D.D.O") - (509) 555-53-06,

Commissaire Frantz Thermilus, Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire - ("DCPJ") - (509) 478-75-97

Commissaire du BAC : (509) 714- 9806

Police's Departmental Unit for the Maintenance of Order - ("UDMO") - (509) 404-8026,

PNH DELMAS (509) 246-90-91, (509) 228-2262,

Minustha Spokesperson in Haiti: (509) 478-6299.


4 . Call and write the United Nations: 212-963-4879, presidentga58@un.org
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UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
PHONE: 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
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


5. Send a copies of letters to your local and national media. (cc: erzilidanto@yahoo.com )
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See, HLLN's COMPREHENSIVE CONTACT LIST FOR HAITI WORK
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HLLN Background information on the Lovinsky
kidnapping-to-cover-political-repression are at these links:

Haitian Activist Planning Senate Run Reported Missing | AP, August, 15, 2007

Rights Advocate Missing In Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine

Di yo nou vle jwen Lovinsky VIVAN!

We are urging for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine,

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To Better understand who would best benefit from the silencing and elimination of Lovinsky's activism, read:

1. The July 28, 2007 declaration of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine's Fondasyon Trant Septanm (in Kreyol, by Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Perspective, July 31, 2007

2. Lovinsky Pierre Antoine on the Visit of Ban Ki Moun to Haiti (in French), by Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Perspective, August 7, 2007

3. Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti - An exclusive Haiti Information, interview with Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine by Darren Ell | This is the first of a two-part interview, February 18, 2007

4. Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti by Darren Ell, Part two of a two-part interview| Haiti Information Project, March 4, 2007

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AUMOHD Alert: Di yo nou vle jwen Lovinsky VIVAN !

Lovinky Pierre ANTOINE, Coordonnateur de la Fondation 30 Septembre est porté
disparu depuis dimanche 12 dans l’après midi.

Je viens de parler avec des proches et amis comme Me. Mario Joseph,
responsable de BAI, Paul Namphy, dit Ti Pol, Patrick ELI et Loulou CHERI qui
tous sont très inquiet de cette disparition. Quant a sa famille, il n’y a
aucune information sur lui.

Je viens de parler au téléphone au Commissaire Frantz Thermilus, de la DCPJ,
Direction Centrale de la Police Centrale et le Commandant du Bureau des
Affaires Criminels, BAC, qui m’a confirme qu’une équipe de la DPST et des
enquêteurs sont sur place a la recherche des informations.


S’il vous plait si vous avez des informations
Passez les aux :

AUMOHD : 509- 7548022 et 4297129

Commissaire Frantz Thermilus , DCPJ 509-4787597

Commissaire du BAC : 7149806

Di yo nou vle jwen Lovinsky VIVAN !

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We are urging for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Fondasyon Mapou/HaitiPriorities - Human Rights Delegation, August 14, 2007

August 14, 2007
For Immediate Release:

We are urging for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.Port au Prince, Haiti

Contacts: Eugenia Charles and Jacob François
Phone 011-509-698-8134, 011-509-448-3672

Our international human rights delegation seeks the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine. A long-time defender of human rights and advocate of the poor, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine has not been seen since 10:00 pm Sunday, August 12, 2007. Our delegation has made numerous attempts to contact him but thus far has been unsuccessful.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine is the national coordinator of September 30th
Foundation and has frequently been targeted for his advocacy work. Lovinsky has been touring the country with our delegation which includes American, Canadian, and Haitian nationals. The delegation has been meeting with Haitian grassroots organizations, government officials and individuals to gather information about the human rights situation in Haiti. The delegation has negotiated the release of two illegally imprisoned Haitians earlier this month; two more prisoners from the same tribunal are awaiting release.

The vehicle Lovinsky was driving was found in the neighborhood of Delmas 10 in Port au Prince. Subsequent searches have not revealed his location. We urge everyone who is a friend of Haiti and supporter of the struggle of the Haitian people to appeal to those who may have seen him or have any information about his whereabouts. If you have information regarding Lovinsky, please contact us at the above numbers.

We are deeply concerned because it has been over 48 hours since Lovinsky has been seen or heard from. We are encouraging the government, MINUSTAH, and international organizations and institutions to collaborate for his safe
return.

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Rights Advocate Missing In Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine

Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: The national coordinator of the September 30th Foundation, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, has reportedly gone
missing in Haiti.

Reports reaching HBN indicate that the long-time human rights advocate has not
been seen since 10 p.m. Sunday, August 12, 2007. “Our delegation has made
numerous attempts to contact him but thus far has been unsuccessful,” a
statement by Eugenia Charles and Jacob François said last night. “We are
encouraging the government, MINUSTAH, and international organizations and
institutions to collaborate for his safe return.”

The vehicle Antoine was driving was found in the neighborhood of Delmas 10 in
Port au Prince. But he remains missing. Antoine had been touring the country
and meeting with Haitian grassroots organizations, government officials and
individuals to gather information about the human rights situation in Haiti.

Anyone with information regarding Antoine is urged to call 011-509-698-8134 or
011-509-448-3672. – Hardbeatnews.com

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What are the authorities doing to find Lovinsky Pierre Antoine?

Ezili Dantò's note:
What are the authorities doing to find Lovinsky Pierre Antoine?

HLLN hereby adds its signature to this call for action written (in Kreyol) by Jafrikayiti.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine is amongst the few national treasures of Haiti. He has used his life and professional skills to give voice and a space of validation to the victims, especially to Haitian women, of both the first and second coup d’etats/foreign interventions against Haiti these last sixteen years.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine disappeared, last Sunday, August 12, 2007, almost a
week ago and has not been seen since. The Associated Press reported that
police and supporters indicated last Wednesday, August 15, 2007 that Lovinsky Pierre Antoine may have been kidnapped. (See “Haitian activist planning senate run reported missing” AP, August, 15, 2007, )

Our questions is, since his disappearance, since the police have said, as
reported by the Associated Press, that Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, may have been
kidnapped. What are they doing to find him and get his release? Nothing has
come out on the major papers on this since Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
Tomorrow will make it one week since Lovinsky Pierre Antoine disappeared.

Below, our colleague, Jafrikayiti, suggest that the police send a clear and unequivocal message to the kidnappers that it would work better for them, if Lovinsky Pierre Antoine were released unharmed; give the kidnappers an immediate deadline to released Lovinsky unharmed where the police would guarantee no force of arms would be used against them. But, if Lovinsky is not released within this immediate time period, as requested, then the police would use all necessary force and resources at their disposal to unearth the kidnappers where they are hiding, rescue Lovinsky in a rescue operation. HLLN would also add that the authorities make a public demand for assistance in apprehending the kidnappers after this time period, by offering the public-at-large a reward for any information that leads to the rescue and release of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, alive and unharmed.

Ezili Dantò
HLLN
August 18, 2007

HLLN hereby adds its signature to this call for action to the authorities
("Sove Lavi Lovinsky") written by Jafrikayiti:

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Sove Lovinsky by Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil)| http://www.jafrikayiti.com

Konpatriyòt onè,

Nan moman m ap ekri mesaj sa a, sa fè plis pase 5 jou depi bri ap kouri osijè zak kidnaping ki fèt sou responsab Fondasyon Trant Septanm nan, konpatriyòt Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.

Daprè, enfòmasyon ki soti nan laprès nasyonal tankou entènasyonal, fanmi ak zanmi Lovinsky nan gwo toumant depi dimanch swa, 12 Out 2007, lè yo vin pèdi kontak ak Lovinsky ki, pi bonè nan sware a, te nan reyinyon ak yon delagasyon dwa moun ki soti nan peyi Kanada ak Etazini. (Haitian Activist Planning Senate Run Reported Missing, AP, August, 15, 2007)

Depi dimanch, se gwo tèt chaje nan mitan zanmi ak fanmi ki oblije ap deside, an katastwf, ki atitid ki pi bon pou yo adopte dekwa pou sitiyasyon sa a pa fini an trajedi.

Jodi samdi 18 Out la, apre 5 jou depi konpatriyòt la anba men kriminèl ki kidnape l yo, nou kwa lè a rive pou santiman lapèrèz sispann kokobe fanmi ak zanmi Lovinsky. Okontrè, se kidnapè yo ki dwe koumanse konprann kijan sa ap fini pi byen pou yo, si yo ta libere Lovinsky vivan e an sante.

Nan sans sa a, nou kwè Lapolis dwe fè yon mesaj klè rive jwenn kidnapè yo prese prese. Asavwa, yo gen X è d tan pou yo lage otaj la vivan.

Yo gen garanti, pandan peryòd sa a, okenn aksyon ak zam pa p fèt kont yo.

Men, apre delè sa a, Lapolis ap itilize tout fòs li genyen aladispozisyon li pou li detere yo kote yo kache a.

Ayiti deja pèdi twòp bon pitit. Fòk, ansanm, nou jwenn yon mwayen kwape emoraji sa a.

DETUI LAVI SE YON ZAK KI PA KA DEFÈT ! Se pou rezon sa a, moun ki gen bon konprann, dwe toujou goumen pou yo pwoteje byen ki pi presye nou chak genyen sou tè sa a, lavi !

Konpatriyòt, otorite peyi a, se devwa nou jodi a pou nou sove lavi Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. Souple, fè tout sa nou kapab pou lap? pote laviktwa sou lapèrèz nan peyi nou an. Se va yon onè pou nou, se va yon gwo viktwa pou tout lanasyon.

Frè nou,

Jafrikayiti
"Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!"
(Brotherhood is as ancient as Mother Africa - L'entraide fraternelle
date du temps o?, tous, nous f?mes encore dans les entrailles de
l'Afrique-mère)
http://www.jafrikayiti.com