As Art Central’s Education Partner since 2015, Asia Society Hong Kong Center will be back at Art Central 2023 this year hosting a full program of performance art, video art and panel discussions at the Asia Society Theatre.
Attorneys painted widely different pictures of the former mayor of a Haitian town who is on trial in the U.S., accused of terrorizing his political opponents. The suit against Jean Morose Viliena began Monday in a federal court in Boston. The case highlights the violence and lack of accountability in Haiti’s politics. In openings, the defense said that Viliena was a successful mayor who improved the town. But an attorney for the three plaintiffs who say they or their relatives were violently persecuted by Viliena said he violently suppressed and intimidated his political foes. Viliena now lives in Malden.
BOSTON (AP) Accusations of political violence and terror have followed a former Haitian mayor all the way to a Boston courtroom, where a civil trial began Monday that shines a light on the wider issue of bloodshed and unaccountability in the Caribbean nation's politics.
An attorney for three Haitian men who claimed in a U.S. lawsuit that the former mayor of their small hometown subjected his political opponents to violence and terror called the defendant “a small, petty tyrant” during closing arguments on March 20. But an attorney for the defendant spent his time poking holes in the testimony
The case against Jean Morose Viliena, the former mayor of a small town in Haiti who now lives in Malden, sheds light on the broader issue of political violence in the Caribbean nation and its ineffective judicial system.