Michèle Montas

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Michèle Montas (* 1946 in Port-au-Prince ) is a Haitian journalist and since January 1, 2007, spokeswoman for the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon .

Montas began her journalistic career together with her husband Jean Dominique in the 1970s with the establishment of Radio Haiti-Inter . In April 2000 Dominique was murdered. Montas continued to run the station alone until February 2003. After several death threats, she fled to New York in 2003. There she supported Jonathan Demme in the production of "The Agronomist", a documentary about her husband's life. For her work against impunity in Haiti, she received the 2003 Reporters Without Borders Human Rights Award . Between September 2003 and September 2004 she was spokeswoman for the General Assembly of the United Nations .

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  1. ↑ Amnesty International report dated January 6, 2003
  2. ^ Information from Reporters Without Borders, December 10, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Montas, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince