Rapid Response Network

harassment of two indigenous women who were key eyewitnesses in a murder trial in the Triqui indigenous community of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca State.

death threats by paramilitary group Black Eagles to Sabino Lucomi, Eduar Mina, Jhon Jairo Valverde, Francia Marquez, leaders of the Afro-descendant community in La Toma who have been calling on authorities to take action against illegal mining.

death threats in Barranquilla, Atlántico Dept, to Martha Elena Diaz Ospina, member of MOVICE (National Movement of Victims of State Crimes) and president of the Association of Families United by a Single Sorrow (AFUSODO)

continuing death threats from paramilitary group Aguilas Negras to Presbyterian Church leaders Reverend Milton Mejia, Reverend Jairo Barriga, German Zaraten; Mennonite Church leader Augustin Jimenez; Anglican priest Father Fernando Sanchez; and Roman Catholic priest Father Fernando Gary Martinez.

unjust conviction and pending sentencing of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, the coordinator of the Honduran Women’s Committee for Peace “Visitacion Padilla”

armed attack on Jesús Flores Satuye (shot in the head and arm), a member of the Afro-descendant Garífuna community of Nueva Armenia in Atlántida Department, and concurrent attack on the offices of La Via Campesina in Tegucigalpa.

threats towards José Humberto Torres, Franklin Casteñada (members of CSSP, Political Prisoners’Solidarity Committee) and Martha Díaz, Rosario Montoya, Ingrid Vergara Chávez, Lilia Peña Silva, Carmen Mendoza (members of MOVICE, Movement of Victims of State Crimes) by the paramilitary group AGC (Gaitanistas de Colombia)

assassination of Carlos Alberto Pedraza Salcedo of Bogotá, a member of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) and the Never Again Project of Colombia

threats to Silvia Pérez Yescas, a defender of women’s, indigenous, and land rights from the community of Matías Romero in Oaxaca State

threats against human rights defender Blanca Nubia Díaz, a member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), in Riohacha, La Guajira Department.