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	americas.org - Save Yvon Neptune; Stop the Persecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yvon Neptune will die within days unless he is freed, and the IGH will not free him.
		Neptune “is and will remain available to the justice system for the pursuit of the investigation….” He has been available to the system for 10 months, during which he has survived assassination attempts, a kidnapping and a prison massacre, but has not been brought before a judge.
		Neptune’s death, and complicity in this death, by announcing that it will withhold all support from the IGH unless it complies with the Haitian Constitution and international human rights standards by immediately freeing Yvon Neptune.
	www.americas.org /item_19373 (489 words)

	Sobaka :: Dossier: Bureaucrat Yvon Neptune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Neptune was chosen to become Aristide's longest serving minister on March 15, 2002 not because of his abilities but because of his impotence.
		Being a dutiful wife, Neptune was prepared to sacrifice his own love for the betterment of his spouse when Aristide brokered a deal with the Americans to bring the opposition into the government during his fateful final days.
		Neptune's imprisonment is in the end little more than a continuation of the practice of scapegoating, in which Aristide was a master.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/yneptune.html (1012 words)

	Neptune on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Neptune has an equatorial diameter of about 30,700 mi (49,400 km), nearly four times that of the earth, and a mass about 17 times the earth's mass.
		Vue de Neptune collectée par Voyager 2 Des astronomes américains ont découvert deux nouvelles planètes hors du système sol.
		Vue de Neptune collectée par Voyager 2 Des astronomes américains ont découvert deux nouvelles planètes extra-solaires parm.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/neptune2.asp (784 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Daughter seeks release of Haiti's ex-PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yvon Neptune is accused of orchestrating political killings during the February 2004 rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
		Neptune has not been brought before a judge to hear the accusations against him, though the Haitian constitution says that must be done within 48 hours.
		Yvon Neptune, who served as prime minister under Aristide, was to be taken to the Dominican Republic for treatment earlier this month but he refused to leave, demanding his unconditional release instead.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/05/11/daughter_seeks_release_of_haitis_ex_pm (371 words)

	Haiti Reborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Neptune said he went into hiding because he was told "by official sources that there were people in a position of power who were trying to harm me." He didn't give details.
		Neptune is being held in connection with the Feb. 9 killings of Aristide opponents in western St. Marc.
		Yvon Neptune, the prime minister of Haiti under President Aristide and a Lavalas party member, was arrested by Haitian police last Sunday, June 27, 2004.
	www.quixote.org /hr/news/haitireport/7-7-2004.php (3785 words)

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		Yvon Neptune was detained at his home in the capital, Port-au-Prince, Police Chief Leon Charles told private Radio Vision 2000.
		Neptune is being held in connection with the February killings of Aristide opponents in St. Marc, a northern port city where violence flared during an armed rebellion that pushed Aristide from power and killed at least 300 people.
		Neptune is the highest-ranking official to be detained since Aristide's Feb. 29 departure.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20040627/haiti_neptune_040627/World (188 words)

	AxisofLogic/ World News
		“Yvon Neptune is still the legitimate Prime Minister of Haiti, and his arrest is part of a politically-motivated campaign to arrest and intimidate members of Lavalas, President Aristide’s political party,” said Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in a Feb. 28 statement.
		Then Prime Minister Neptune flew in by helicopter with a television crew in an attempt to project confidence and, in his words, “encourage the police.” During those days, there were several skirmishes between the forces of order and those of destabilization.
		Neptune is under arrest,” Haiti’s right-wing thugs “continue to strut around Haiti with impunity, their nasty record of human rights abuse and drug smuggling seemingly of little concern to Mr.
	www.axisoflogic.com /cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=56&num=9849 (957 words)

	portland imc - 2005.05.09 - Yvon Neptune Nears Death: Clearing the Fences in Haiti
		Neptune was arrested pursuant to a valid warrant last June 27 (he turned himself in when he heard about it on the radio), but since then the government has not taken even the first step in prosecuting the case against him.
		Neptune's hunger strike is forcing the government to choose, to choose between complying with the law and setting him free or publicly, illegally and terminally depriving him of his rights.
		Neptune's strike is showing that these countries cannot simultaneously support their avowed human rights principles and a dictatorial regime, and it is forcing them choose.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/05/317081.shtml (1381 words)

	Foire d'Opinions Haitiennes - Why Is It So Hard to See What's Really Happening In Haiti ?
		After meeting with Neptune, Congresswoman Waters described his condition as “very bad” and added that “he is in a weakened position and I do not believe that he can continue this fast without causing his death.” Although every day of his hunger strike jeopardized his health, Neptune had vowed to continue fasting until his release.
		Neptune is perhaps the most well-known of the numerous pro-Aristide government officials and others who have been detained by the Latortue regime.
		During her visit with Neptune, Congresswoman Waters called the prison conditions “deplorable” and said the former prime minister told her that he “believes he has been targeted to be killed.” Additionally, jailed Aristide supporters are often reportedly housed with some of the same rebels who ousted Aristide, creating a volatile environment.
	www.haitiwebs.com /haitianforums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=20316 (3464 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yvon Neptune, the prime minister under ousted Haitian President Aristide, is being held in connection with the killings of several Aristide opponents in St. Marc.
		Yvon Neptune, Haiti's former prime minister who refused to leave his homeland in the wake of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, came out of hiding Sunday to turn himself in to Haitian authorities.
		Neptune is being held at the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, where he is being closely guarded because of his former position and safety concerns, Gousse said.
	www.haitigetinvolved.com /news/mh_406284.htm (636 words)

	HaitiXchange - Teledjol Forum: Yvon Neptune taken to hospital
		Neptune, 58, is stable and responding well to treatment, he said.
		Neptune, who served under deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was arrested on June 27 on accusations of masterminding a series of killings on Feb. 11, 2004, in a village near Saint Marc, about 60 miles (95 km) north of Port-au-Prince.
		Neptune and another inmate linked to Aristide briefly left prison last month amid conflicting accounts of an armed attack on the jail.
	www.haitixchange.com /forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=5&TopicID=1932&PagePosition=1 (361 words)

	Haiti's Prime Minister Yvon Neptune rushed to hospital in critical condition - Mar 11, 2004
		Yvon Neptune, Haiti’s prime minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, on a hunger strike since Feb. 20, has fallen into critical condition and was rushed to a hospital by U.N. soldiers Thursday evening, according to sources in Port-au-Prince.
		Neptune and Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert have been refusing food to protest their illegal detention as well as the imprisonment of hundreds of Aristide supporters who have not been charged with any crime.
		Prime Minister Neptune was taken to the MINUSTAH hospital — run by the UN Argentinian soldiers — across the highway from the main airport.
	www.haitiaction.net /News/HAC/3_11_5.html (500 words)

	Yvon Neptune reportedly will be forced into exile
		Neptune's family stresses that Yvon Neptune would never go into exile; that he has repeatedly maintained this position: That he is an innocent man, wrongfully accused of a massacre that the UN, the international press and reputable human rights organization say did not happen.
		If Neptune is flown out of Haiti today or at any other time without a complete exoneration already signed, then he wants the world to know he was forced to leave Haiti by the UN/US/Canada/France and their Latortue-supported death regime against his will.
		Right now, in the room of Yvon Neptune, we have been told a group of Argentanian doctors have entered Neptune rooms and we are being told, via telephone, that they want to give him a "serum" to force him out of the prison.
	www.iacenter.org /archive2005/neptune-0505.htm (705 words)

	CCR
		Neptune voluntarily turned himself in ten months ago when a warrant was issued for his arrest alleging that he was involved in masterminding a massacre which occurred near the town of St. Marc during the insurrection which led to the removal of Aristide and the installation of a U.S.-backed Interim Government.
		Neptune is on a hunger strike and his condition is said to be deteriorating rapidly.
		Neptune is being detained and concluded that there was a “confrontation” between pro and anti-Aristide supporters in which people from both sides were killed.
	www.ccr-ny.org /v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=ZIp3H7UPKX&Content=575 (534 words)

	Haiti News Briefs
		Neptune has been on a hunger strike to protest his detention and is gravely ill. Neptune is accused of organising political killings during the rebellion that led to the ousting of then President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.
		Neptune said he would accept to be evacuated only if all the charges brought against him were lifted," Mike Joseph, a spokesman for interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, said in a statement late Sunday.
		Neptune was arrested on June 27, 2004, and has been held at the Port-au-Prince national penitentiary without being formally charged by a judge.
	haitisupport.gn.apc.org /fea_news_main43.html (2467 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Former PM refuses to leave Haiti
		Mr Neptune, 58, is protesting against his 10-month detention without charge in connection with political killings during last year's rebellion.
		"Yvon Neptune said he won't accept the medical evacuation unless all the charges levelled against him have been withdrawn," said the government statement, obtained by the Associated Press news agency.
		Mr Neptune is accused by Haiti's interim government of masterminding the killings in the western town of St Marc in February 2004 during the armed revolt that drove President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4506099.stm (261 words)

	Global Exchange : Half Hour For Haiti: Keep the Pressure on to Save Yvon
		Neptune should be freed, even though the Constitution requires such a determination within 48 hours of arrest (for Neptune, that was on June 29, 2004), so the detention is still illegal.
		Yvon Neptune, Haiti's last Constitutional Prime Minister, turned himself in to police on June 27, 2004, as soon as he heard of a warrant for his arrest.
		Neptune is freed by publicly informing the judge that it no longer desires to prosecute the case against him.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/haiti/haitimay3.html (966 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Haiti's Prime Minister Declares State of Emergency
		Prime Minister Yvon Neptune declared a state of emergency to combat what he described as groups fomenting terror in the capital, and to restore calm to Haiti.
		Neptune says vandalism and looting have caused $300 million worth of damage in Haiti over the past few days.
		Neptune called on all public employees to return to their jobs and says banks which have been closed for more than a week are expected to reopen on Thursday.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-3-4/20253.html (302 words)

	Index
		Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was arrested Sunday after living in hiding since the March 12 installation of the new US-backed interim Prime Minister Gererd Latortue.
		Neptune is being detained at a prison in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
		Neptune says he went into hiding when Latortue was installed three days before he agreed to step down as prime minister and was told "by official sources that there were people in a position of power who were trying to harm me." He was barred from leaving Haiti along with some 40 ex-officials.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=04/06/30/1514246 (2660 words)

	Pacifica.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The US-backed interim government of Haiti is preparing to charge former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune with having a role in a series of political killings in the town of St. Marc in February 2004.
		Neptune served as prime minister under Jean Bertrand Aristide who was ousted last year in what he calls a modern-day kidnapping in the service of a coup d'etat backed by the United States.
		Neptune's family says he was badly beaten on Friday as he was taken to a court in Saint Marc to be charged.
	www.pacifica.org /programs/dn/050425.html (1185 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Political prisoners Yvon Neptune and Jocelerme Privert, respectively Haiti’s prime minister and interior minister in President Aristide’s administration, survived a massive prison revolt at the National Penitentiary of Haiti on Feb. 19.
		Yvon Neptune said, “My life has been in real danger since the elected president of our country was removed in February of 2004.
		After Neptune and Privert returned to the prison, Haitian authorities wrongfully reported that the two men had been captured by national police, a charge Neptune said is a total lie and a story repudiated by the UN.
	www.sfbayview.com /022305/haiticoup022305.shtml (1065 words)

	(DV) Felux: The Witch Hunt Intensifies
		Neptune served as Prime Minister under the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
		Yvon Neptune flew to the town by helicopter and was greeted by cheering crowds.
		They are targeting Neptune, along with many other former officials and activists associated with Lavalas, in an attempt to provide a de facto justification for their illegal hold on power.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /July2004/Felux0703.htm (832 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / U.S. Politician Urges Haiti to Free Former Premier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, who started a hunger strike 16 days ago to protest his imprisonment, should be released immediately, a U.S. politician said on Monday.
		Neptune, who served under ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has said he is a political prisoner.
		Neptune went into hiding after Aristide left Haiti on Feb. 29, 2004, in the face of a monthlong armed revolt and under U.S. and French pressure to quit.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/03/08/us_politician_urges_haiti_to_free_former_premier?mode=PF (405 words)

	ABC News: Ex-Haiti PM to Go to Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Neptune, who had been held without charge for 10 months in connection with political killings during the February 2003 rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is flying into exile to neighboring Dominican Republic, a diplomatic source and a radio station reported Sunday May 1, 2005.
		Yvon Neptune, who has been held without charge for 10 months in connection with political killings during the February 2004 rebellion that ousted Aristide, will be taken to a hospital in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, the secretary of the Dominican Armed Forces, Adm. Sigfrido Pared Perez, told The Associated Press.
		An official at the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti said on condition of anonymity that Neptune was still under house arrest Sunday in a luxury suburb, where he was moved earlier this month after being hospitalized to recover from a 19-day hunger strike.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=719625 (466 words)

	Hold off transition, Haitian prime minister says : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune on Thursday said choice of a new prime minister and a transition government should be delayed until allegations about the resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide can be put to rest.
		Neptune, speaking by telephone from his office in Port-au-Prince, where he is under U.S. Marines protection, told The Herald that if Aristide's resignation this weekend occurred under duress, then it was not constitutional.
		Neptune named Leslie Voltaire, the minister for Haitians Living Abroad, to represent the government and the Lavalas Family Party.
	www.indybay.org /news/2004/03/1672496.php (460 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Haiti's Top Political Prisoners Forced From Prison in Daylight Attack, Returned Next Day
		Neptune and Privert were later turned over to United Nations soldiers, a spokesman for the UN force in Haiti said, according to Xinhau.
		Whoever took Neptune and Privert from their cells soon gave the two to the UN force, which (according to some reports) returned them to their imprisonment by the U.S.-installed post-coup government in Haiti.
		If Neptune and Privert were forced out of the prison by the well-armed attackers, as most news agencies are now reporting, this does not seem possible without the assistance of prison guards.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2005/2/20/103552/622 (2851 words)

	Haiti: Former PM's Hunger Strike Highlights Sense of Chaos
		Neptune, who served as prime minister under exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, began taking liquids at the request of his closest friends and family last weekend but remains in an extremely weak condition, according to reports from Port-au-Prince, where he has been held in a government house since March.
		Neptune, 58, has been jailed for over 10 months without appearing before a judge and began a hunger strike on April 17 that has left him dangerously weak.
		Neptune has not seen a judge since shortly after his arrest last June on charges that he masterminded a mass killing in St. Marc in February 2004.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0510-08.htm (1148 words)

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