Haitian police take ex-dictator Jean Claude Duvalier to court

News - January 18 2011, 4:50 PM

A contingent of police led the former dictator known as "Baby Doc" through the hotel and to a waiting SUV. He was not wearing handcuffs.

Duvalier, 59, was calm and did not say anything.

Asked by journalists if he was being arrested, his longtime companion Veronique Roy, laughed but said nothing.

Outside the hotel, he was jeered by some people and cheered by others.

His removal from the hotel came after he met in private with senior Haitian judicial officials met inside his hotel room amid calls by human rights groups and other for his arrest.

The country's top prosecutor and a judge were among those meeting with the former leader in the high-end hotel where he has been ensconced since his surprise return to Haiti on Sunday.

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