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Urgent Action: Freedom for Fredy Muñoz, correspondent in Colombia for CANAL TELESUR |
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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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Urgent Action: Another University of Valle Student is Killed |
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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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Urgent Action: Mass detentions planned of prominent leaders in Valle de Cauca |
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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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Urgent Action: Assassination, Death Threat and Police Raid Against SINALTRAINAL |
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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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Urgent Action: Assassination of Trade Unionist in Barrancabermeja |
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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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