PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — SOS Journalistes Haiti strongly condemns the repeated and persistent threats against its leader, due to his commitment and determination to defend freedom of the press and expression in Haiti.

For several weeks, the Secretary General of SOS Journalistes, Joseph Guyler C. Delva, has been facing a series of threats to his personal safety, including death threats, from malicious and unidentified individuals.

After intense pressure and denunciations from SOS Journalistes, and after eight (8) long months of forced and illegal suspension, the program « Boukante Lapawòl » (Exchanging Words) has been authorized to resume broadcasting on Radio Mega (103.7 FM).

For several weeks, since the beginning of August 2025, Mr. Delva has personally and privately spoken to the CEO of Radio Caraibes, Patrick Moussignac, to inform him of the threats to his personal security, threats that he continues to receive and which have multiplied in recent days.

And because of this situation, he was forced, despite himself, to take cover and flee Radio Caraibes, where he co-hosts a very popular sociopolitical show, « Matin Caraïbes, » broadcast daily between 9:00 a.m. and noon.

Very recently, the deputy police spokesperson, Lionel Lazarre, called Mr. Delva, during the month of August, to inform him that the director of the haitian anti crime unit, known as DCPJ, needed to send him some correspondence. He wanted to know where to send it.

Lazarre had asked Guyler C. Delva to call the director of the DCPJ, whom he could not reach by phone. In the end, no one from the DCPJ had officially contacted Mr. Delva to tell him what was going on.

It has been learned that those in power had a plan to also link Joseph Guyler C. Delva to the activities of armed gangs, as was recently the case with another journalist. But the idea was reportedly opposed by a sympathetic officer, who warned his colleagues of a scandal with disastrous consequences for the reputation and image of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ).

Mr. Delva has repeatedly been the victim of animosity and discriminatory practices by the authorities in power, who deliberately decided to boycott or blacklist SOS Journalistes, which the CPT, without any justification, decided to exclude from a project submission initiative benefiting the press sector in particular.

Guyler C. Delva was forced to suspend his professional activities and seek cover in order to protect himself.

SOS Journalistes remains deeply concerned about the current situation of press freedom and freedom of expression in Haiti.

Done in Port-au-Prince, September 9, 2025.

Joseph Guyler C. Delva
Secretary General of
SOS Journalistes Haiti