In addition, she recalled that it is the State’s task to guarantee the right to life, integrity and freedom of demonstration.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) “emphatically” condemned the cases of brutality and police abuse in Colombia, after the death of a man in the custody of uniformed men, which generated violent demonstrations that left at least seven dead.
The Human Rights organization ruled after the death of Javier Ordóñez, a 46-year-old lawyer, who, after receiving repeated shocks with an electric weapon and being immobilized by agents, died.
In this context, the IACHR reminded the Colombian State “of its duty to guarantee the right to life, integrity, and freedom of demonstration.” In addition, that isolated acts of vandalism “do not make a threat to public order to the social movement that exercises its rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association”, because according to citizen videos that have circulated widely, in different parts of the country people were harassed by police officers at night while protesting.
The international body also said that “the use of force by the State security forces must follow the principles of legality, necessity, reasonableness and proportionality, putting the protection of the rights of all persons at the center. ”. And it is that, last night’s court, ending on September 9, there had been five homicides in the context of the protests. All the victims, likewise, civilians in places of the capital such as Suba and northern Usaquén.
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