Each year there is a ceremony for the National Human Rights Defense Award in Colombia. The award, organised by Diakonia Suecia seeks to recognise, highlight and applaud the work of individual defenders, processes, organisations and human rights NGOs that carry out their work in vulnerable and risky conditions. Continue reading Eight nominees for the National Human Rights Award are accompanied by PBI
Tag Archives: Jorge Molano
Operation Dragon
In this operation, trade union leaders, human rights defenders and political leaders from Valle del Cauca were the target of an assassination plot and a smear campaign. Continue reading Operation Dragon
The Vandals’ Poster
During the smale scale farmers’ strike of August 2013, the Police published what they called “The Vandals’ Poster”,[1] a poster showing photographs of 48 people who were “protagonists of acts of vandalism against the city and disproportionate aggression against the Security Forces”,[2] including Alejandro Ospina Cogua, a student at the Universidad Pedagógica de Bogotá. Continue reading The Vandals’ Poster
Murder of Jhonny Silva
Lawyer Jorge Molano represents the relatives of Jhonny Silva, a student at Universidad del Valle, killed by members of the Police riot squad Escuadrón Móvil Antidisturbios (ESMAD) in 2005 during a student demonstration. Continue reading Murder of Jhonny Silva
Extrajudicial killings in Manizales
Darbey Mosquera Castillo, Alex Hernando Ramirez Hurtado and Jose Didier Marin Camacho, were three young unemployed men of scant resources from Pradera (Valle del Cauca), who dreamed of earning some income for their families. Continue reading Extrajudicial killings in Manizales