(19 Jan 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of hotel where former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is staying
2. UN peacekeepers on guard outside hotel
3. Exterior of hotel
4. Various of Duvalier on the balcony having breakfast
5. Various of security outside hotel
6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Aliex Jeanty, Duvalier's lawyer:
"The charges they are talking about go back to 1986, if there were any charges at all. More than 20 years have passed and legally they have expired, they have expired, but if they want to bring up something new (meaning come up with new charges) then like my colleague said we are talking about political persecution here."
7. Duvalier waving from the hotel to a crowd of supporters
8. Supporters clapping
9. Duvalier on the balcony
STORYLINE
Haitian authorities want Jean-Claude Duvalier to leave the country, but the once-feared dictator will not go, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.
One of his defence attorneys told reporters that it is Duvalier's right to remain in Haiti, but that he is free to go.
He stressed that Haiti's government has not ordered Duvalier to return to France following his surprise return on Sunday.
The defence attorney said that a Haitian judge who met with the 59-year-old former leader, who apparently does not have a valid Haitian passport, asked him when he planned to leave.
Duvalier's lawyers also said during a media conference that the charges against his client, if they were any, have expired.
"If they want to bring up something new (meaning come up with new charges) then like my colleague said we are talking about political persecution here," said Aliex Jeanty, one of the Duvalier's lawyers, during an improvised presser.
Duvalier, who assumed power in 1971 at age 19 following the death of his notorious father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, faces accusations of corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster.
He returned to Haiti on Sunday evening after being exiled for nearly 25 years.
Haitian authorities moved toward trying Duvalier for alleged corruption and embezzlement during his brutal 15-year rule by opening an investigation on Tuesday.
Judges questioned him for hours behind closed doors in a court in Haiti's capital, defence attorney Gervais Charles said.
A judge of instruction will decide whether there is enough evidence to go to trial, Charles said. A process that can take up to three months.
Haiti's system allows for pretrial detention, but Duvalier was allowed to remain free and returned to his hotel room under police escort following the questioning.
His long time companion Veronique Roy had earlier said Duvalier expected his trip from France, where he has lived in exile, would last three days.
There are no signs of widespread support for Duvalier, who has spent most of his time in a high-end hotel.
Demonstrations on his behalf have been relatively small by Haiti standards.
More than half the nation's people are too young to have lived through his government.
The Haitians who remember the Duvalier years hoped he had left for good, closing an era of terror and repression that began under "Papa Doc."
Human rights groups say tens of thousands of people were killed during the 29-year father-and-son dictatorship, while many others were maimed or forced into exile.
Duvalier has been accused in the past in Haiti of stealing hundreds of (m) millions of dollars in public money and Swiss officials have struggled for
years over what to do with his bank accounts in that country.
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