Duvalier taken to Haiti hospital after falling ill

Jean-Claude Duvalier

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, who faces charges of corruption and rights abuses after returning from exile in January, is being treated in a hospital after falling ill, aides said yesterday.

Duvalier, 59, who ruled Haiti for 15 years after taking over in 1971 on the death of his widely feared father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, was taken to a private hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

“He has several problems. He had a terrible stomach