The request for provisional release filed by ten American Baptists continue in Haiti for abduction was released yesterday, said their lawyer Edwin Coq.
“The judge did not accept the request for provisional release,” said Mr. Cock, leaving the prosecutor’s office where the ten Americans were held all day yesterday. “The judge has issued two mandates for deposits, one for the group of five men who are incarcerated in the national penitentiary, one for five women who will be held at the prison for women in Petion-Ville,” has detailed the lawyer.
Ten Baptist missionaries, who tried to illegally from Haiti exfiltrer thirty children, were charged Thursday of “abduction of minors and criminal conspiracy” and should be tried in Haiti.
The National Penitentiary is the main prison of Port-au-Prince, where much of the 4,000 inmates escaped, taking advantage of the earthquake on January 12. The hearing of inmates will continue next week, “said Mr. Cock.
