A journalist died Sunday in Haiti after getting seriously injured when chaos broke out at a police substation in Port-au-Prince — and he was hit in the head with a police tear gas canister, a Haitian journalists association confirmed.
The journalist was identified as Romelson Vilcin and he was a correspondent for Generation 80, a radio station based in the northwestern city of Port-de-Paix, the Association of Haitian Journalists said in a communique that raised concerns about the manner in which Vilcin died. The association said several journalists were injured when police opened fire when they gathered at the Delmas 33 police substation to demand the release of an arrested colleague.
“The Association of Haitian Journalists strongly condemns these antidemocratic and repressive acts... by the Haiti National Police against the press,” said Jacques Desrosiers, secretary general of the association, who referred to the incident as police brutality.
