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... be charged or released

By STEVENSON JACOBS
Associated Press Writer
March 9, 2005, 9:21 PM EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Four U.S. senators urged Haiti's interim government Wednesday to either charge or release a former prime minister who has been on a hunger strike for almost three weeks to protest his incarceration. <snip>

"If no charges have been brought against Mr. Neptune, we demand that he be immediately released," said Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd in a letter to interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue. "No prisoner should be submitted to prolonged detention unless they are formally charged ... and prompt steps are taken to set a date for their trial."

Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Vermont Senators James Jeffords and Patrick Leahy also signed the letter, a copy of which was released by Dodd's office. <snip>

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--haiti-jailedpremi0309mar09,0,4600259.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut