Political prisoner.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Popular Roman Catholic priest Gerard Jean-Juste gestures from a window at the prison where he had been held for more than six months by Haiti's interim government. Jean-Juste was finally released on January 29 to be treated in the U.S. for leukemia leukemia (l kē`mēə), cancerous disorder of the blood-forming tissues (bone marrow, lymphatics, liver, spleen) characterized by excessive production of immature or mature and pneumonia pneumonia (n mōn`yə), acute infection of one or both lungs that can be caused by a bacterium, usually Streptococcus pneumoniae . An outspoken ally of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jean-Juste has been accused by the government of involvement in the July 2005 killing of prominent journalist Jacques Roche Jacques Roche was a prominent journalist and poet of Haiti. He was kidnapped on July 10, 2005, and was found dead on July 15, 2005. Television footage showed him tied to a chair and mutilated. Police say he was tortured, his tongue cut out, then shot. .
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