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Massacres and Killings of Social Leaders Impede Peace in Colombia: Second Alert Format by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli As per our prior December 16 urgent action, below you will find concerning rights situations requiring your attention and action. Black U.S. Actor and Activist Assaulted by Police in Cartagena (Bolívar) On December 15, police officers in Cartagena, Bolívar department assaulted Kendrick Sampson—a Black U.S. actor and Black Lives Matter Activist. A video of the incident circulated through social media, which showed a uniformed officer harassing Kendrick, punching him in the fac...

Massacres and Killings of Social Leaders Impede Peace in Colombia Format by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli In recent months, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has received various requests for the protection of social leaders and ethnic minorities, as well as human rights cases requiring intervention. These have surpassed our staff’s ability to act on all of them in our usual, expeditious manner. As such, we are constrained to publishing alerts in a parceled manner. Below are the first set of cases we’ve received. We cannot stress enough that international actions are required to sto...