The former president of Haiti’s football federation (FHF), Yves Jean-Bart, is set to appear in court to respond to sexual abuse allegations after campaigners won the right to appeal against a prosecution decision to drop the case.
A criminal case against the 75-year-old was dismissed in November 2020 but it is understood that an appeal led by five human rights organisations representing some of the alleged victims was heard last week by a judge in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. A judge ruled that magistrates in Croix-des-Bouquets, the district where the FHF’s national training centre is based and many of the incidents are alleged to have taken place, must now hear the appeal.
