Fritz Dorillas – Advertisement – San juan, puerto rico The Associated Press Police patrol after recovering the bodies of slain journalists in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 7. Odelyn Joseph/The Associated Press
The eighth journalist has been killed in Haiti this year, the Inter American Press Association said Wednesday.
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Fritz Dorilas, who worked for Radio Tele Megastar, was gunned down near his home in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday, according to local media.
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“We continue to deplore crimes against journalists this bloody year in our region,” said Carlos Jornet, the association’s president for the commission of press freedom and information
Mr. Dorilas was killed in the community of Tabarre, which has seen an escalation of gang warfare
Online journalist Romelo Vilsaint died on Oct. 30 when a tear-gas canister hit him in the head during an incident in which witnesses said police threw tear gas and opened fire on a group of journalists demanding the release of a colleague
Also last month, authorities found the body of slain radio journalist Garry Tess and reported that Roberson Alphonse, a reporter for Le Nouvelliste newspaper, survived a murder attempt
Mr. Alphone underwent several surgeries in Haiti and was then flown to the U.S., where he is recovering, according to Frantz Duval, the newspaper’s chief editor
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