The Sherlson Sanon case: clarifications from the RNDDH

On 20 January 2023 Sherlson Sanon was tried by the Port-au-Prince criminal court sitting without a jury for criminal association and false denunciation, sentenced to one year in prison, and released under the Loi de Lespinasse because he had already spent longer in detention than the sentence he received. The network was then held responsible in public for his ten years of illegal and arbitrary pretrial detention, and this document is its answer. Its position is that the right to order a person's incarceration belongs to the judicial authorities and that they are therefore responsible for every case of illegal and arbitrary pretrial detention. Anyone whose judicial guarantees have been violated should take the matter to those authorities, to denounce them and to demand reparation.