The Commission wishes to inform that case No 9597 was
presented to the Commission on
June 26, 1985, on behalf of Mr. Einstein Louison, former Vice
Minister of Defense and Chief of
Staff of the Army during the Government of Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop. On May 2l, l985,
the Grenadian Government seized the passport of Mr. Louison, then
an executive member of the
Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement (MBPM), leader of the Maurice
Bishop Youth Organization
(MBYO) and a former candidate in the December 1984 elections.
Mr. Louison's passport was
seized at Point Salines international airport as he was intended
to leave Grenada to attend a
Congress in East Germany and then visit his wife, a Cuban
citizen, who was expelled from
Grenada by the U.S. Armed Forces in October 1983 and was residing
in Cuba.
Mr. Louison exhausted his domestic remedies by taking the
matter on June 7, l985, to the
Supreme Court of Grenada alleging that the seizure was illegal,
unconstitutional, and a violation
of his human rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. The
Supreme Court on September 27,
l985, rejected his claim.
The Government of Grenada informed the Commission that Mr. Einstein Louison's passport had been handed back to him on December 22, 1988.
