URGENT ACTION: HOODED MEN ATTACK OFP WOMEN’S LEADER IN HER HOME

Attack and Threat on Women’s Leader Yolanda Becerraby O.F.P., Human Rights Colombia and others Sunday, Nov. 04, 2007 at 1:44 p.m.

‘When the men knocked at the door, Yolanda Becerra Vega thought it was the women who had returned and opened it. The men pushed the door and started to hit Yolanda, pinning here against the wall. One of them pointed a gun at her, and they told her “son of a bitch, your story is over. You have 48 hours to leave, if not we’ll wipe out your family. You won’t escape us”.’

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URGENT ACTION: DEATH THREATS AGAINST COCA-COLA UNION LEADERS

Today, 2 November at approximately 11 am, comrade LUIS EDUARDO GARCIA and JORGE CONTRERAS BENIAN carried out a workshop in the Universidad Pontificia on the theme of ‘Water Campaigns: A Right for All’ and against the policies of Coca-Cola.

Read more: https://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/content/view/133/45/

REQUESTED ACTION E-MAILS
Alvaro Uribe Velez auribe@presidencia.gov.co ; copied to Oficina Naciones Unidas Derechos Humanos ; Mision Colombia ante Naciones Unidas ; Vicepresidente Republica ; Embajada de Colombia en España ; DDHH Ministerio Interior ; Defensoria del Pueblo ; Defensoria Pueblo ; Procuraduria General de la Nacion ; Procuraduria de la Nacion ; Fiscalia General ; Fiscalia ; Derechos Humanos Presidencia ; Procuraduria ; Carlos Franco ; Asesor Programa Presidencia de D.H. y DIH ; Ministerio Interior ; Observatorio DDHH de Vicepresidencia
(Some of these will bounce, but some will get through, copy and paste and try the lot).
And to the Colombian Embassy in UK Email: mail@colombianembassy.co.uk or your country.
With copies to us at info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk; we will send on to the OFP and SINALTRAINAL.