NEW YORK (CMC):

A New York-based press freedom group has called on Haitian authorities to fully investigate what it said were multiple death threats made against prominent journalist and press freedom advocate, Joseph Guyler Delva.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Delva complained that he received the threats through two calls to his cell phone last Thursday and these were followed up by similar calls over the next several days. The calls were placed from blocked numbers, the group reported.

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CPJ said the anonymous callers warned the journalist that he should be careful, that they knew where he was, and that they were going to "get him.".

"We call on Haitian authorities to conduct a speedy and thorough investigation into the threats against Joseph Guyler Delva and to bring all those responsible to justice," said CPJ's Executive Director Joel Simon.

"Authorities should also provide Delva with the necessary protection to allow him to continue to work safely."

Delva, who hosts a morning news show on the Port-au-Prince-based Radio Mélodie FM, is also the Port-au-Prince correspondent for the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), BBC, Reuters, and the New York-based Haitian Times.

He is president of the local press freedom group S.O.S. Journalistes and head of a recently created independent committee of Haitian journalists that reviews the progress of official investigations into the unsolved murders of journalists in Haiti.