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 Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/guardian.co.uk 30 January: Children believed to have been caught up in illegal adoptions sit in a police car in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Eliana Aponte/guardian.co.uk 2 February: Louding, 10, inside the 'SOS Children's village' Photograph: Eliana Aponte/Reuters Photograph: Eliana Aponte/guardian.co.uk 1 February: Some of those arrested talk to journalists from their holding cell at the Port-au-Prince judicial police station Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk 4 February: A Haitian policeman escorts accused man Silas Thompson, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho Photograph: Thony Belizaire/Getty Images Photograph: Thony Belizaire/guardian.co.uk 4 February: Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridien, Idaho, arrives at court in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Thony Belizaire/Getty Images Photograph: Thony Belizaire/guardian.co.uk 4 February 2010: Charisa Coulter, 24, of Meridian, Idaho, on her way into court Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/guardian.co.uk 4 February: Corinna Lankford from Meridian, Idaho, arrives at court Photograph: Thony Belizaire/Getty Images Photograph: Thony Belizaire/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/guardian.co.uk