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Colombia: International Activists Detained While Accompanying Peaceful Protest |
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Contributed by Michael Bell
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
Four international activists (and one Colombian national) were detained Monday while accompanying a protest in Bogotá, Colombia. The activists - two Americans, one Spaniard, and one Italian - work with the International Peace Observatory, a group that accompanies communities in processes toward self-determination. The group says they were accompanying the protest to ensure civilians' right to do so peacefully. Police say that they were participating and causing disorder.
(Source: El Colombiano, a Medellín-based Colombian daily newspaper. Links to Spanish language article.)
Unfortunately, this story was in the pipeline. As Colombia's political spaces close off, it was predictable that the government would make a move against international human rights observers. If the government succeeds in deporting these internationals on "legal" and "legitimate" grounds (how ever bogus the justification probably will be), other international groups risk becoming stained in the process. This in turn will be used by the powers-that-be as a pretext to accuse all internationals of causing problems. (Problems like supporting rights to free speech and thought, the right to organize, the right to associate and peacefully protest.)
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