OEA/Ser.L/V/II.76
ANNUAL
REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION RESOLUTION Nº 35/88 CASE 9597 GRENADA September 18, 1989 The
Commission wishes to inform that case Nº 9597 was presented to the Commission
on June 26, 1985, on behalf of Mr. Einstein Louison, former Vice Minister of
Defense and Chief of Staff of the Army during the Government of Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop. On May 2l, l985, the Grenadian Government seized the passport of
Mr. Louison, then an executive member of the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement (MBPM),
leader of the Maurice Bishop Youth Organization (MBYO) and a former candidate in
the December 1984 elections. Mr. Louison’s passport was seized at Point
Salines international airport as he was intended to leave Grenada to attend a
Congress in East Germany and then visit his wife, a Cuban citizen, who was
expelled from Grenada by the U.S. Armed Forces in October 1983 and was residing
in Cuba. Mr.
Louison exhausted his domestic remedies by taking the matter on June 7, l985, to
the Supreme Court of Grenada alleging that the seizure was illegal,
unconstitutional, and a violation of his human rights as guaranteed by the
Constitution. The Supreme Court on September 27, 1985 rejected his claim. The Government of Grenada informed the Commission that Mr. Einstein Louison’s passport had been handed back to him on December 22, 1988. [ Table of Contents | Previous | Next ] |