Health and Human Rights in Pris­ons Project up sev­eral lev­els, and expect to quadru­ple our Haiti legal staff this month.

We are mov­ing for­ward with old cases, espe­cially that of Jimmy Charles, a grass­roots activist mur­dered in police cus­tody in 2005. We are almost done redesign­ing our web­site, we have a lot of pho­tos of our work posted on flickr and we launched the Lawyers Com­mit­tee for Jus­tice in Haiti on Linked-In.

Click here for details. Every­one who made this pos­si­ble by writ­ing, call­ing, fax­ing, demon­strat­ing etc. etc. over the past three years should take pride in $1 mil­lion per week stay­ing in Haiti instead of going to the banks.

The sad­dest news is the pass­ing of one of our heroes, Rev. Ger­ard Jean-Juste, on May 29. We have a spe­cial sec­tion on our web­site, with pho­tos, trib­utes and arti­cles about Fr. Gerry, who inspired us and so many oth­ers to fight for jus­tice for Haitians in Haiti and the U.S. The most out­ra­geous news is the shoot­ing by MINUSTAH

There has still been no progress on TPS, despite more peo­ple join­ing the call for it, includ­ing more Sen­a­tors, Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and news­pa­per edi­to­r­ial boards de facto halt on non-criminal depor­ta­tions, but no offi­cial change of sta­tus for the 30,000 Haitians in the U.S. with final depor­ta­tion orders.

This WRonald Dauphin, who has been held ille­gally for nine times longer, with­out a trial.

, Michele Pierre-Louis, the other to Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton, join­ing 51 orga­ni­za­tions and two City Coun­cilsthe on-line peti­tionclick here.

HalfHour4Haiti@ijdh.org.

The Hon­or­able William J. Clin­ton
55 West 125th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027

Re: Hait­ian Polit­i­cal Pris­oner Ronald Dauphin

Dear Pres­i­dent Clinton:

I am writ­ing to con­grat­u­late you on your suc­cess­ful efforts to obtain free­dom for jour­nal­ists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, and to request that you make sim­i­lar efforts for Hait­ian polit­i­cal pris­oner Ronald Dauphin, who has been impris­oned nine times longer in worse con­di­tions with­out a trial, and is suf­fer­ing from ill­ness that can­not be treated in the prisons.

Sin­cerely,
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For more infor­ma­tion about the Half-Hour For Haiti pro­gram, the Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH) or human rights in Haiti, see our web­site, www.HaitiJustice.org. To receive Half-Hour for Haiti Action Al erts (about 2 per month), send an email to HalfHour4Haiti@ijdh.org.