Weekly Report - 02 February 2012 (WR-12-05)

Haiti’s former dictator Jean Claude Duvalier, ‘Baby Doc’, will not face charges for the murders, disappearances, torture and other human rights abuses committed under his dictatorship (1971-1986). Carves Jean, the judge handling the case, submitted a 20-page report to the attorney general’s office this week arguing that the only legal grounds for putting Duvalier on trial were for embezzling funds during his time in power. The report flies in the face of international recommendations, undermining Haiti’s institutional credibility and thus providing further discouragement for potential foreign investors, and donors, that Haiti needs to attract to rebuild and to reactivate its economy.

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