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  "slug": "jean-claude-duvalier",
  "name": "Jean-Claude Duvalier",
  "office": null,
  "role": "President of Haiti",
  "country": "HT",
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      "slug": "1981-haiti-duvalier-radio-haiti-inter-exile",
      "title": "Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile",
      "occurred_on": "1981-01-01",
      "occurred_on_precision": "year",
      "country": "HT",
      "country_name": "Haiti",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "HT",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "expulsion_and_visa_denial",
      "tactics": [
        "detention_and_violence",
        "expulsion_and_visa_denial"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "jean-claude-duvalier",
      "leader_name": "Jean-Claude Duvalier",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Radio Haiti-Inter had built a reputation for independent reporting critical of the Duvalier government at a time when most Haitian media avoided such coverage, drawing sustained official friction toward the station.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "1986-02-01",
      "outcome_note": "Jean Dominique returned to Haiti and to Radio Haiti-Inter in February 1986 after the fall of President-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier's government.",
      "stage": "eliminate",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 107,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 107th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1980s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Under President Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian authorities arrested and deported staff of Radio Haiti-Inter, an independent station that had reported critically on the government, forcing its director, journalist Jean Dominique, into exile in 1981. He returned only after Duvalier's government fell in 1986.",
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    }
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