Haiti’s National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) has called on the Dominican government to grant asylum to former Port-au-Prince mayor Ralph Youri Chevry, who has been arrested by Dominican authorities in Dajabón.
In a letter to Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez, RNDDH explains that Ralph Youri Chevry He is the object of political persecution in the neighboring country, for which he asks to provide security.
He says Chevry was interviewed by the Central Directorate of the Haitian Judicial Police in October last year and sent to his residence, but that on February 6, Haitian police officers broke into his house and two days later issued a desired opinion against his.
It is added that this search warrant came after a judge of the Court of Cassation, Yvickel Dieujuste Dabresil, was arrested on the night of February 6, 2021 in the company of 17 other people, including Inspector General Marie. Louise Gauthier.
He points out that a wave of persecution against the political opposition is currently developing in Haiti, with several prisoners, “with the obvious aim of sowing terror among the population and establishing a state of siege in the country. Faced with this situation and fearing for his life, Mr. Ralph Youri CHEVRY was forced to take refuge in search of refuge in the Dominican territory, while democracy is restored in Haiti.
The Haitian Human Rights Entity supports your request in documents relating to the refugee situation, including the 1951 Geneva Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees ratified by the Dominican Republic on 1 and 4 April 1978, the Cartagena Declaration of 1984, the Declaration of New York on Refugee Status, signed by 193 countries for a Global Refugee Pact.