Unconfirmed sources report the departure of Christopher Hartley from Dominican territory.

Hartley is a Roman-Catholic priest and a human rights defender who had been working in the San José de los Llanos parish to improve the health and human rights situation of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian origin.

His activities, albeit peaceful, had caused foul reactions from several key-figures of Dominican government, the conservative religious leader Nicolás de Jesús Cardinal López Rodríguez and influential interest groups.

Repeatedly, Hartley's foes pressed to terminate his human rights activism, try his deportation from Dominican soil, or otherwise induce the loss of support, revocation or non-renewal of his missionary work by his religious order to force his departure.

It all seems to be done.