Dear comrades, We wish to extend greetings to your forum. We also send our solidarity in your efforts to have Liliany released immediately. Her work with The National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions, part of which was a tour of speaking engagements in Australia, was obviously too effective in explaining the human rights crisis in Colombia. Her imprisonment is a travesty of justice, without even a trial! Continue reading »
Today 8 August, it is exactly one year since the Colombian police detained our comrade and friend Liliany Obando and charged her with two counts of rebellion and managing funds for a terrorist organization. On this open letter, Liliany herself gives a brave account on how the Colombian government uses her case in an effort to silence the political opposition and proponents for social justice. Continue reading »
By Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas,National Model Jail/High Security Block, July 31st, 2009
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Miguel Ángel Beltrán, kidnapped in Mexico and held as a prisoner in the Model Jail in Bogotá [Colombia], writes from prison a letter to his comrades and teacher colleagues in which he presents the state in which he finds himself and the irregularities that gnaw at his trial. Below we present the letter in its entirety. 
