Rapid Response Network

continuing death threats from paramilitary group Aguilas Negras to Presbyterian Church leaders Reverend Milton Mejia, Reverend Jairo Barriga, German Zaraten; Mennonite Church leader Augustin Jimenez; Anglican priest Father Fernando Sanchez; and Roman Catholic priest Father Fernando Gary Martinez.

unjust conviction and pending sentencing of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, the coordinator of the Honduran Women’s Committee for Peace “Visitacion Padilla”

armed attack on Jesús Flores Satuye (shot in the head and arm), a member of the Afro-descendant Garífuna community of Nueva Armenia in Atlántida Department, and concurrent attack on the offices of La Via Campesina in Tegucigalpa.

threats towards José Humberto Torres, Franklin Casteñada (members of CSSP, Political Prisoners’Solidarity Committee) and Martha Díaz, Rosario Montoya, Ingrid Vergara Chávez, Lilia Peña Silva, Carmen Mendoza (members of MOVICE, Movement of Victims of State Crimes) by the paramilitary group AGC (Gaitanistas de Colombia)

assassination of Carlos Alberto Pedraza Salcedo of Bogotá, a member of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) and the Never Again Project of Colombia

threats to Silvia Pérez Yescas, a defender of women’s, indigenous, and land rights from the community of Matías Romero in Oaxaca State

threats against human rights defender Blanca Nubia Díaz, a member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), in Riohacha, La Guajira Department.

death threats and security incidents against defenders of Afro-Colombian territorial, labor, and civil rights Francia Marquez Lisifrey Ararat, Luis Ernesto Olave Valencia, Senator Piedad Cordoba and Jesús Enrique Andrade (shot 3 times in the head)

threats to trade unionist, women’s human rights defender, peasant farmer association leader Juan Martínez, MOVICE (Movement of Victims of State Crimes) members Martha Díaz and Ingrid Vergara Chávez by the paramilitary group Black Eagles-Northern Bloc Atlantic Coast in Atlántico Department.

murder of environmental and indigenous rights defender Juan Francisco Martinez, a member of the Independent Indigenous Lenca Movement of La Paz (MILPAH).