Rapid Response Network

death threats to Esdra Yaveth Sosa Sierra, Director of Asociación Arcoíris, an LGBT rights organization in Tegucigalpa

death threats against 14 individuals and two human rights organizations, José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CCAJAR) and the Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP). Individuals include José Humberto Torres (CSPP); Leon Valencia and Ariel Avila (Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, PARES); José Aristizábal García, Fernando Hernández Valencia and Adolfo Bula (New Rainbow Corporation); and several politicians, including Senators Claudia López and Iván Cepeda, Mayor Gustavo Petro of Bogotá and his colleague, Gloria Flórez

killing of two journalists, Danilo Zapón López and Federico Salazar, and the wounding of a third, Marvin Israel Túnchez, in Mazatenango in Suchitepéquez Department.

death threat to journalist César Omar Silva Rosales by a military officer

assassination of radio journalists Luis Peralta (in Caquetá) and Edgar Quintero (Valle del Cauca) and intimidation and threats to radio journalist Geovanny Canacué, colleague of Luis Peralta

assassinations of four indigenous land rights activists in Cauca Department (Gerardo Velasco Escue, Emiliano Silva Oteca, Arturo Andrés Galindo Bastos and Carlos Algeiro Mera Pino) and death threats to indigenous community leader Alfredo Campo Lectamo and others speaking out against these killings

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.