Jean Renel Sanon, the Minister of Justice and Public Security does not intend to tolerate any demonstration during the first week of the new school year, announcing the formal ban on demonstrations across the country "Tires inflamed, broken windshields [...] we do not have time for this kind of thing, "stressing that priority is given to children who attend school. He asserts that formal instructions were forwarded to the National Police of Haiti (PNH) to firmly punish offenders. According to the Minister, this is an exceptional and temporary decision that will be lifted next week.
A decision rather unwelcome especially by Pierre Esperance, director of the National Network for the Defence of Human Rights (RNDDH) which states that the right to manifest is a constitutional right that the Minister under the Act, has not the authority to suspend this right. Describing the decision of illegal, he highlights to the attention of the police that they do not have to apply illegal directive of the Minister, under pain of being sanctioned.
Defying the Minister's decision, the "Patriotic Movement of the Democratic Opposition" (MOPOD), which groups the main opposition party, announced by the voice of his Coordinator André Fardeau, that a demonstration will take place Thursday, Sept. 11 in Port-au-Prince.
