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Women's Popular Organization, OFP

Early in 2001, two ladies, Dora Guzmán and Gloria Amparo Suárez, members of the Women's Popular Organization, OFP, started to be subjected to threats, and their Organization's main buildings suffered a number of attacks attributed to a self-defense group operating in Barrancabermeja. The Government of Colombia is dealing with these cases through the Threatened Persons Risk Evaluation Committee. The Armed Forces have devised a special security plan to protect the Organization's three main buildings. Responsibility for this lies with the Middle Magdalena Special Operations Commander. Two persons are currently under special Police protection. Other persons threatened have decided to accept protective accompaniment from Peace Brigades International.

In connection with the above events, in November the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office issued an order For José David Londoño Navarro, Alias "El gato", the head of one of the groups operating in the communes of Barrancabermeja, to be kept in preventive detention without bail. The man in question is held to be responsible for the crimes of conspiracy, formation of "paramilitary" groups in conjunction with destruction of protected property, and issuing threats. He is currently in custody at Barrancabermeja Judicial District Jail
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Modelo National Prison

In respect of the case relating to threats issued by inmates indicted for "paramilitarism" and ordinary crimes -kept in Blocks 4 and 5 of Bogotá Modelo National Prison- against persons detained for political crimes and kept in Blocks 1 and 2, on May 12, 2000, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued cautionary orders in favor of the 115 inmates under threat. The National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting the case, and looking for connections with other cases relating to the events that took place in the prison on 27 April, 2002, during a riot following a murder. Twenty-five persons died and others were injured or went missing as a result of the armed struggle inside the prison. The Eighteenth Prosecutor's Office issued seven restraining orders for aggravated homicide, attempted aggravated homicide, illegal carrying of weapons restricted to the Military Forces, and manufacturing and trafficking in firearms. Two of those accused have since been indicted.


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