Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

assassination by paramilitaries of Ernesto Guzmán , who had close associations with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Antioquia Dept.

unjust 2-year detention and false criminal charges against Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, members of the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.

death threats to Iván Madero Vergel, Director of the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS), in Barrancabermeja, Santander.

death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Povenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department

surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Claudia Julieta Duque, journalist with the human rights organization Equipo Nizkor and with Radio Nizkor

stabbing of Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and death threats to his lawyer Andrea Torres Bautista; Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and mother Jacqueline Ramirez are involved in a high profile human rights case

surveillance of Berenice Celeita, Director of the Research and Social Action Association (NOMADESC) at her home in Bogotá

death threats to journalist of David Romero Ellner, director of Radio Globo

death threats to witnesses in two prominent human rights cases: Jacqueline Ramirez, Andrea Torres Bautista and Luis Carlos Ramirez; also, attack on Luis Carlos Ramirez, who narrowly escaped

disappearance of political journalist Bernardo Javier Cano Torres, who had been threatened by the brother of the former mayor of Iguala, Guerrero, who was removed from office for his suspected role in the disappearance and presumed execution of 43 college students in September 2014