01-19-2011 08:57 BJT
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Haitian police have taken former president Jean-Claude Duvalier from his hotel without saying whether he was being detained for crimes committed under his brutal regime.
A contingent of policemen led the 59-year-old former leader, known as "Baby Doc" through the hotel and to a waiting vehicle. He was not wearing handcuffs.
His removal came after he met in private with senior Haitian judicial officials inside his room amid calls by human rights groups and others for his arrest. The country's top prosecutor and a judge were among those meeting with the former leader in the high-end hotel where he had been ensconced since his surprise return to Haiti Sunday.
Duvalier was forced into exile in 1986 in a mass uprising and has since been living in exile in France.
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