Former DAS director indicted again for political assasination
A former director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS is being taken to trial for the second time for his alleged role in a political assassination, local media reported Wednesday. A…
A former director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS is being taken to trial for the second time for his alleged role in a political assassination, local media reported Wednesday. A…
Death threats against Colombian journalists have increased over the past six months, according to the Inter American Press Association report. While noting that in the past six months there were…
Members of human rights organizations in the Medellin neighborhood of Comuna 6 are receiving death threats from illegal armed groups said the local Ombudsman. Medellin Ombudsman Jairo Herran Vargas has…
287 Colombian judicial officers have been assassinated and hundreds more were subjected to violence and intimidation over the past 20 years, the association of judicial employees said Friday. Over the past…
The prosecutor for Colombia’s anti-narcotics unit (UNAIM) resigned Thursday after claiming that she did not receive the full support of the prosecutor general in the cases she handled. In her…
Being a judge in Colombia is a “high risk” profession, according to the Supreme Judicial Council, reported W Radio Wednesday. “We are very concerned that in the past five years…
Colombia’s national police chief General Oscar Naranjo meets with Supreme Court judges to discuss recent threats made against magistrates. Court President Jaime Arrubla called the meeting as a result of…
Colombia’s Supreme Court revealed that death threats have been made against Judge Augusto Ibañez and called for government protection for the magistrate and other judges who face intimidation. According to…
Colombian news source El Tiempo claims that U.S. journalist Brian Andrews, the host of RCN’s “News in English,” fled Colombia, after receiving threats from guerrilla group the FARC. “The truth…