UA: 42/12 Index: AMR 23/008/2012 Issue Date: 8 February 2012

A man from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, was shot at by two paramilitaries in the northern town of Apartadó on 4 February. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 14/12 Index: AMR 23/006/2012 Issue Date: 6 February 2012

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Members of the Regional Human Rights Corporation (CREDHOS) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, have received new death threats from paramilitaries. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 26/12 Index: 23/004/2012 Issue Date: 26 January 2012

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On 23 January, an attempted kidnapping took place of Blanca Nubia Diaz in Bogotá, Colombia. She is seeking justice for the rape and killing of her daughter Irina del Carmen Villero Díaz by paramilitaries. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 18/12 Index: AMR 23/003/2012 Issue Date: 20 January 2012

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Orlando Verbel Rocha's life is in danger. A threat was made against him through the daughter of his deceased brother, Eder Verbel Rocha, who was killed by paramilitaries on 23 March 2011, in San Onofre Municipality, northern Colombia. Orlando Verbel Rocha survived the attack in which his brother was killed. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 143/11 Index: AMR 23/015/2011 Issue Date: 18 May 2011

On 13 May, information documenting human rights abuses was stolen from the home of Danilo Rueda, a Colombian human rights defender. He is a member of the organization Inter-Church Commission of Justice and Peace, whose members have previously received death threats. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 48/11 Index: AMR 23/011/2011 Issue Date: 14 April 2011

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Hildebrando Vélez, an environmentalist who has played a leading role in campaigning to establish the whereabouts of Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego, also an environmentalist, has received death threats. Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego went missing in Cali, western Colombia, on 27 February, and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA: 301/09 Index: AMR 23/008/2011 Issue Date: 31 March 2011

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Cendy Torres Vergara, the daughter of human rights defender Ingrid Vergara, has received death threats by telephone. Her mother is one of the leaders of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes, MOVICE, in Sucre Department, Northern Colombia. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 94/11 Index: AMR 23/007/2011

On 23 March two paramilitaries shot at Orlando Enrique Verbel Rocha, Eder Verbel Rocha and his son in San Onofre municipality in Northern Colombia. Eder Verbel Rocha was killed in the attack. Amnesty International fears for the life of his family and other MOVICE members. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 74/11 Index: AMR 23/005/2011

Human rights defender Nancy Fiallo Araque has in the past few months received repeated telephone death threats and has been followed in Bogotá, Colombia. She and other human rights defenders have been following judicial proceedings involving politicians suspected of having illegal links with paramilitaries. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 48/11 Index: AMR 23/002/2011 Issue Date: 28 February 2011

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On 17 February Colombian environmentalist Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego may have been subjected to enforced disappearance in Cali, western Colombia, on her way to give a lecture at the National University in nearby Palmira. Her identity card, mobile phone and other personal belongings have been found, but her whereabouts remain unknown. [ Lire la suite » ]