- Samir Handal was arrested at Istanbul Airport in November after arriving from the United States.
- President Jovenel Moise was shot last July at his home in Port-au-Prince.
- Handal’s lawyers argued that Interpol’s “red notice” has been lifted.
A Turkish court denied an extradition request for a suspect detained in connection with the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise last year according to local media.
Samir Handal was arrested at Istanbul Airport in November after arriving from the United States with Haitian, Jordanian, and Palestinian passports.
At the time, Haiti’s serving foreign minister Claude Joseph called Handal “one of the people of greatest interest to the investigation”.
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