Haiti charges American missionaries with child kidnapping

30 January: From left, Americans Steve McMullin, Jim Allen, Carla Thompson, Silas Thompson, Paul Thompson, Laura Silsby, Drew Culberth and Nicole Lankford at police headquarters in the Port-au-Prince international airport. These eight and two other US Baptist missionaries have been charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge, just as officials were trying to protect children in the earthquake's aftermath
Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

30 January: Children believed to have been caught up in illegal adoptions sit in a police car in Port-au-Prince
Photograph: Reuters

2 February: Abdias, 8, sits on a swing inside the "SOS Children's Village" run by aid agencies in Port-au-Prince. Abdias is one of 33 children the American group is accused of trying to take out of the country
Photograph: Eliana Aponte/Reuters

2 February: Louding, 10, inside the 'SOS Children's village'
Photograph: Eliana Aponte/Reuters

1 February: Some of those arrested talk to journalists from their holding cell at the Port-au-Prince judicial police station
Photograph: Reuters

4 February: A Haitian policeman escorts accused man Silas Thompson, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho
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4 February: Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridien, Idaho, arrives at court in Port-au-Prince
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4 February 2010: Charisa Coulter, 24, of Meridian, Idaho, on her way into court
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

4 February: Corinna Lankford from Meridian, Idaho, arrives at court
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4 February: Steve McMullin, 56, of Twin Falls, Idaho, exits a Haitian police truck after being taken back to jail in Port-au-Prince
Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP