The MJSP is delighted with the acceleration observed in the processing of judicial files at the level of the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of the Republic.
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) expresses its satisfaction with the dynamism observed at the level of the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of the Republic since December 2022. The institution headed by Émmelie Prophet Milcé underlines, in a press release dated January 23, that the processing of judicial files is accelerating at the level of the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of the 18 jurisdictions of the country.
“Since the publication of the Circular of December 1, 2022, Commissioners and Substitutes of the Government Commissioner have been working to stem the scourge of prolonged, illegal and arbitrary preventive detention which is eating away at the Haitian judicial system”, rejoices the MJSP in this press release. .
Thus, no less than 247 final indictments and 162 indictments were issued by the prosecutors of the eighteen (18) jurisdictions of the country for the month of December 2022. In addition, 267 outstanding files were returned to the correctional court to be heard and tried in accordance with the law. A record in the history of justice in Haiti, according to the MJSP.
These advances, recalls the ministry, follow the adoption of a series of administrative measures published on December 1st in order to revitalize the judiciary. These results “constitute eloquent testimony to the determination of the Minister Emmelie PROPHÈTE MILCÉ to restore the image of Haitian justice”, according to this press release.
Prolonged preventive detention in the line of sight of the MJSP
The Minister of Justice also maintains that the fight against prolonged preventive detention is one of her priorities. This scourge “constitutes today one of the major challenges against which the holder of the MJSP intends to wage a merciless fight in order to achieve respect for the fundamental rights of litigants who, for the most part, have been waiting for ages for the decision to a natural judge”, assures the MJSP.
In this regard, the MJSP points out that during the same month of December 2022, the prosecutors carried out 162 visits to civilian prisons, in order to observe the state in which the detainees are living, scattered across the various prison centers of the country.
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