Jocelerme Privert
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Jocelerme Privert is a former minister of the interior of Haïti
. He was arrested in 2004 on charges of killing Jean-Bertrand Aristide
opponents. He was the first former member of the Aristide government to be imprisoned since he left the nation.
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
. He was arrested in 2004 on charges of killing Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies...
opponents. He was the first former member of the Aristide government to be imprisoned since he left the nation.