Took about an hour and a half to get there from the airport.

Fr. Jean-Juste is in good spirits and is sharing a cell with Harold Severe, former Mayor of Port au Prince.

Fr. Jean-Juste (JJ) says jailers are more human — though he is much more isolated from the people of his parish of St. Claire. It would take all day for people from his parish to get there in a tap tap. He is very thankful that the feeding of the children has resumed and wants everyone involved to keep doing exactly the same as they are doing with the contacts in the parish — that covers all the needs of the people he cares for.

He thanks especially Margaret Trost and advises her to keep doing what she is doing and for others to support the parish through her.

The prison is a concrete block structure, painted bright blue on the lower half and white on the upper — with a tin roof. Though there are many mosquitos and rats — toilets are also a challenge, but he likes the jailers much better.

When I was there several sisters from St. Charles Parish had just come to bring him some food and toilet paper. He still has back pain and would like someone to see if they can get him another set of prescription reading glasses — as his were lost in the abrupt transfer.

He has no idea why he was transferred. Nor if he will be transferred again soon.He advises people to continue to put pressure on the Haitian authorities and the right-wing elements in the US government including the ambassador, James Foley, who Fr. Fr. Jean-Juste describes as “the proconsul of Haiti and the real force behind the puppet government installed by the US, France and Canada.”

To his friends and supporters he says “Freedom is coming – one way or another. I, as a Christian and a priest, know victory is coming for me through Jesus. Suffering is here, but freedom is coming. Though physical freedom is limited, the support and prayers of so many people are lifting me up. On the spiritual level, I am experiencing the fullness of freedom. Regardless of who tries to enslave my body, my soul will taste freedom forever – and not just for me but for all who work for justice and peace in Jesus.

“I am an experienced activist – I am a follower of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. I am against all kinds of violence – violence from the oppressors and violence from the oppressed.

“The oppressors are the group of 184 who are trying, by any means, to grab all the powers and are behind the killing and arbitrary arrests of Lavalas people. They paid the gang people in Cite Soleil and weeks before gave them guns to shoot and kill the Lavalas people on September 30.

“We must stop the arbitrary arrests and killings. It is becoming so abusive. The hooded men in black uniforms seem to be behind everything from my arrest, to other arbitrary arrests of many others, to the massacres.

“I hesitate to ask people to do more because everyone is working so hard to survive now. You know what to do peaceful demonstrations, advocacy, keep the pressure on – I trust your judgment on how best to do this. God will listen to our prayers, but remember, “Freedom is coming!”

**HLLN Note, Nov. 7, 2004: Please circulate this call from Father Gerald Jean Juste of Haiti for help. Write and call your local and national media to report on Father Jean Juste's plight. You involvement will keep him alive and simply from getting murdered. Ask you elected representatives, the UN, President Bush, Colin Powell, the major human rights groups, and the Brazilian Mission to call for Father Jean Juste's immediate release. Contact info is on our website for your convenience:

www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html ,and,readily available on any of our previous urgent action releases or, at Haitiaction.net)