Originally published in Spanish by La Liga Contra el Silencio.
“Help! Shooting in Siloé. It’s 9:25. They are shooting us,” says a trembling man filming a group as they run away. “They are killing us,” someone says amid screams and confusion in another video showing people sprawled on the floor, wounded and bleeding.
These accounts, shared on social media and essential in broadcasting the national strike, depict what happened on the night of May 3 in a popular neighborhood known as Siloé, in the Comuna 20 in west Cali. They reflect the hours of terror and the police’s excessive use of force against demonstrators. The human toll: 19 people wounded, mostly by bullets, and three young people killed: Kevin Antoni Agudelo Jiménez, Harold Antoni Rodríguez Mellizo, and José Emilson Ambuila.
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Colombia: Concerning reports of disappearances and sexual violence against protesters
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Despite growing national and international condemnation, the militarized response and police repression of mostly peaceful demonstrations continues in different cities across Colombia. Police have used force indiscriminately and disproportionately, and there are alarming reports of sexual violence and disappearances, Amnesty International denounced today. Enforced disappearance and sexual violence perpetrated by authorities are crimes under international law that any state should investigate and prosecute.
“The Colombian authorities must guarantee the right to peaceful assembly and refrain from stigmatizing and repressing the demonstrations that have been taking place across the country since 28 April. Guaranteeing peaceful demonstrators’ right to life and their safety must be central to the authorities’ response, in accordance with international human rights standards,” said Erika
Lima, Peru, 5 May 2021. Peruvian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo (L) hands a document to former presidential candidate Veronika Mendoza, for her to sign pledging her support for Castillo in the 6 June election runoff, GIAN MASKO/AFP via Getty Images April 2021 in the Americas: A free expression round up produced by IFEX s Regional Editor Paula Martins, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
No truth, no justice, no reparation
Three years ago, in April 2018, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno confirmed the death of Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas Bravo and Efraín Segarra, a journalistic team from
El Comercio newspaper. The three were kidnapped in the town of Mataje, close to the Colombia border, when covering the presence in the area of the Frente Oliver Sinisterra – a breakaway faction of the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia).
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OAS to Observe Federal and Local Elections in Mexico
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OAS to Observe Federal and Local Elections in Mexico
May 7, 2021
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) will send an Electoral Observation Mission to observe the federal and local elections to be held in Mexico on June 6. To lead the Mission, Secretary General Luis Almagro has designated Argentinian lawyer Santiago Cantón.
Cantón is an International Visiting Scholar at American University Washington College of Law. In 2021, he was Chief of the OAS Special Mission to El Salvador. From 2001 to 2012 he was the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). In 1998 he was elected as the first Rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression in the Inter-American System. Moreover, he has served as Secretary of Human Rights of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was also the Executive D
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