+Haiti Duvalier 2
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
STORY:+Haiti Duvalier 2- WRAP Former dictator removed from hotel by police ADDS more
LENGTH: 02:30
FIRST RUN: 1830
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STORY NUMBER: 672370
DATELINE: Port-au-Prince - 18 Jan 2011
LENGTH: 02:30
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SHOTLIST
(FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 18 JANUARY 2011)
1. Jean-Claude Duvalier, waving to crowd from stairwell, accompanied by his longtime companion Veronique Roy and surrounded by officials and police
2. Security outside the hotel, police and UN peacekeepers trying to keep supporters away
3. Duvalier, Roy and officials and police in stairwell
4. Security and media outside hotel
5. Duvalier surrounded by people going down exterior stairs
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(FIRST RUN 1830 NAMERICA PRIME NEWS - 18 JANUARY 2011)
6. Various of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier descending the stairs of his hotel escorted by police (shot from inside the hotel)
7. Haitian police and journalists in the lobby
8. Duvalier and his longtime companion Veronique Roy surrounded by bodyguards, Haitian police, aides and media
9. Various of Duvalier and Roy walking out of the hotel and onto the street
10. Armed police officers opening the way for Duvalier and Roy
11. They arrive at car
STORYLINE
Haitian police took ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his Port-au-Prince hotel on Tuesday without saying whether he was being detained for crimes committed under his brutal regime.
A contingent of police led the former dictator, known as "Baby Doc", through the hotel and to a waiting vehicle.
He was not wearing handcuffs.
The 59-year-old former dictator was calm and did not say anything.
Outside the hotel, he was jeered by some people and cheered by others.
Dozens of Haitian National Police officers were posted inside and around the hotel, some of them in riot gear or guarding the stairwells.
A police vehicle for transporting prisoners was parked in front of the hotel's main door and all non-police traffic was halted at the driveway.
His removal from the hotel came after he met in private with senior Haitian judicial officials inside his hotel room, amid calls by human rights groups and others for his arrest.
The country's top prosecutor and a judge were among those meeting the former leader in the upmarket hotel where he had been ensconced since his surprise return to Haiti on Sunday.
Duvalier was forced into exile in 1986 in a mass uprising and had been living in exile in France.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others urged the Haitian government to arrest him for widespread abuses.
He has also been accused of pilfering millions of dollars from public funds and spiriting them out of the country to Swiss banks, though he denies stealing from Haiti.
Duvalier assumed power in 1971 at age 19 following the death of his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
The father and son presided over one of the darkest chapters in Haitian history, a period when thuggish government secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute tortured and killed opponents.
The younger Duvalier still has some support in Haiti and millions are too young to remember life under his dictatorship.
His abrupt return sent shock waves through the country, with some fearing that his presence would bring back the extreme polarisation and political violence of the past.
Duvalier has not yet publicly commented on why he came back to Haiti.
His return came as Haiti struggles to work through a dire political crisis following the problematic 28 November first-round presidential election, as well as a cholera epidemic and a troubled recovery from an earthquake.
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