Haitian journalist working for a Montreal online radio station killed

January 6 , 2022

Physical attack, Physical attack in 2022

John Wesley Amady, a 32-year-old journalist working in Haiti for the Montreal online radio station Radio Écoute FM, was shot and killed on Jan. 6, 2022.

Amady may have been about to interview the leader of an armed gang in Laboule 12 near Port-au-Prince, according to local accounts, when he and two other journalists were attacked, reportedly by a rival gang. One of the other journalists was also killed in the incident and the other escaped.

Radio Écoute FM confirms John Wesley Amady was killed while reporting on the ground in #Haiti for them.

The station will “suspend all activities until further notice.”

RIP Amady pic.twitter.com/wAXSPWAYGr
— Natalie Gallón (@NGallonCNN) January 7, 2022

Radio Écoute FM is based in Montreal but has a studio and six employees in Port-au-Prince.

Reporters Without Borders condemned the attack, calling on Haitian authorities to “conduct an exemplary and exhaustive investigation.”

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