Colombia’s anti-riot police (ESMAD) on Sunday killed an indigenous journalist engaged in a protest over land ownership in the southwest of the country. Members of the Kokonuko peoples have been…
The deputy commander of Bogota’s police force and 11 other policemen were arrested for the 2013 assassination of a cousin of a prominent leftist senator. One police suspect is still…
Members of Colombia’s feared ESMAD riot unit must take compulsory courses in human rights, the country’s State Council ordered while convicting the unit for killing a student during a protest.…
The human rights commission of the Organization of American States (OAS), has urged Colombia to investigate allegations of excessive police violence during protests in the country’s largest port city. According…
A minor was shot dead, and one reporter and several policemen were injured in southwest Colombia on Tuesday after riot police opened fire at indigenous protesters and clashes erupted. The feared ESMAD anti-riot unit indiscriminately…
An army sergeant and a corporal have been arrested for the murder of an indigenous governor in the southwest Colombia, local media reported Tuesday.
Twenty years after burning a kidnapping suspect’s penis, a Colombian police colonel was sentenced to six years house arrest for torture on Tuesday.
The leftist Colombian political party Patriotic Union (UP) marched on Thursday to honor the thousands of victims killed over the years from their movement in what has been called a…
A judge has ordered the release of 30 soldiers tied to the recent murder of a farmer in southwest Colombia, keeping just three army officials in detention on homicide charges,…