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On the evening of November 19, 2006, the journalist FREDY MUÑOZ ALTAMIRANDA,
correspondent in Colombia for Canal TELESUR, was detained by agents from the
Administrative Department of Security (DAS), when he returned to Colombia
after having participated in a TELESUR audiovisual narrative workshop that
took place in the neighboring country of Venezuela. By order of the Fifth
District Attorney’s Office in Barranquilla, FREDY was detained and charged
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Open Letter to the Colombian Embassy in London (handed in on the 16th of November 2006).
We are writing to express our urgent concern regarding the grave
deterioration of the human rights situation in Colombia and the precarious
situation of the social movement. Taking into account detailed and confirmed
reports of the escalating threats to life, we demand that President ALVARO
URIBE VELEZ and Vice-president FRANCISCO SANTOS explain the reasons for the
persecution of political opposition leaders, trade unionists, students and
defenders of human rights.
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Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 5 October 2006 (ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL)
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign is very sad to have to report the murder of another student at the University of Valle - Julian Andres Hurtado Castillo.
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Colombia, 2 October 2006 (ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL)
We, the organisations signing below denounce to the nacional and
internacional community the new harassment, persecution and attempt to
silence and intimidate defenders of the fundamental rights of the most
vulnerable sectors in the social and armed conflict in Colombia, and
particularly in the country’s south west.
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A series of attacks against the very existence of SINALTRAINAL have occurred in different regions of Colombia; ranging from a raid on the union’s national headquarters in Bogotá, to the assassination of one of our activists. |
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The Barrancabermeja Committee of the Colombian Trade Union Federation (CUT) rejects the vile assassination of one of our comrades JORGE GUILLEN LEAL, 33 years old, that took place on 23 July at 2.30 pm in the barrio Covida in the municipality of Barrancabemeja. The murder was carried out by two individuals who arrived at his house in a taxi and then shot him. His wife was at home at the time with one of his two children who was doing his school homework. Jorge was the father of two young children, a girl and a boy of 10 and 5 years old. |
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We affirm our motto “It is better to cope with fear than cease to be because of fear”. Once again the Popular Womens Organisation (OFP - Organización Femenina Popular) is being threatened by those who believe they are lords of life, who have for years been deciding who lives in Barrancabermeja and how long they live, acting with complete impunity in the majority of cases. |
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Beginning on the 15th May 2006 more than fifteen thousand representatives of campesino, indigenous and black community groups from across the South West of Colombia began arriving at the Indigenous Reserve of 'La Maria' in the department of Cauca, South West Colombia. They were there to protest the effects of the Free Trade Agreement signed between Colombia and the United States and to criticise the lack of progress on national and regional agreements to expand land rights to indigenous and black communities in the region. |
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