What was hoped for in Colombia as a historic day, the initiation of the virtual public hearing in the case of the journalist Jineth Bedoya also the most high American court of human rights, has unloaded this Monday in an unpublished action of the Colombian State. The Andean state has opted to reject the magistrates of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corteh IDH) and has withdrew its judgment in determining its responsibility for the sexual assaults, aggression and violence that it committed in Bedoya, in the context of its international obligations with periodicals.
Jineth Bedoya’s justice search for 20 years. The periodical, the sub-editor of the periodical El Tiempo, was stabbed, tortured and violated by paramilitaries on May 25, 2000, when an investigation was carried out into the La Modelo cell in Bogotá. Since then it has been converted into one of the main voices against sexual violence in Latin America and a decade in front of the campaign No time to call, with the proposal that the victims take the lead and denounce the aggression.
The initiation of the three-day hearing was received with expectation in Colombia. First of all, there is an international tribunal, not least an instance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), which is openly and violently pronounced against violence against the periodicals in our country and in the hemisphere and sexual violence in Colombia. ”, Señalaba the editorial staff of El Tiempo is lunes. ‘There is no time to call or tolerate. It is time for full justice, ”he said. In the background information sent to court in 2018, the CIDH concluded that the Colombian State is responsible for multiple violations of the rights of Jineth Bedoya. After a year, the paramilitaries fled to 40 years of imprisonment as other materials after she had to be turned into a criminal investigator. Almost none of the criminal authors of the crime have been prosecuted.
The communicator has been receiving incessant incest until today. “My life was destroyed, and I was fed up with the month of May 25”, related in the audience with the voice recorded at the signal that the periodism has the oxygen that it was allowed to follow adelante. ‘Hy skep that la palabra is the best way to transform the pain. But lamentably my life is acceptable ”, declared. “How can I recover anything I have in my footsteps? Because that’s what sexual violence is about, ”he said at the time.
Bedoya related in his statement that agents of the police made the sugerieron interviewed in the circle with paramilitary officers, the trampling that used in the sequel, as well as the resuscitation that debioning debride debit to the authorities the sexist 12 so. También also declared that the mayor will make repairs that he will be able to recover. The Model, which has systematically produced all types of violations.
After several hearings, the team of the State Defense Agency representing Colombia, under the direction of Camilo Gómez, announced that it was proposing to send a letter to the court in order to obtain five juices, with the argumento que sus preguntas prejuzgaban. “Here is what is done is the failure of guarantees and objectivity in this process (…) Be treated not to prejudice a State that is presented with humility before the court and that the car before the victim, but after hope of he judged the impartiality and the objectivity that are the essence of justice ”, said Gómez in his desperate allegiance to announce that he was retiring. “We hope that the Illustrated State of Colombia will present its writings and petitions, the issues will be resolved in due course, and while this audience will not be able to interrupt and we will continue,” said Elizabeth Odio Benitez, President of the Court.
“It is a precautionary and irresponsible conduct,” said José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch for the United States, using the decision of Colombia to reject all cases of juvenile delinquency. “El Gobierno de Iván Duque debería avergonzarse de lo que hizo ante la Corte IDH in the case of Jineth Bedoya”, written in his social speeches.
“The organizations representing the periodicals consider that the action of the State demonstrates the decision against the victims of sexual violence in the armed conflict and has no worthy spaces to accede to justice”, said in a statement issued by the Foundation for the Freedom of the Press ( FLIP), which accompanies the case. The return of the State is an act without precedent that generates preoccupation with its compromise before the judgment, as well as with regard to the sometime prior to the decision to adopt the court, in spite of the organization. “In addition, this action is part of a strategy that seeks to delegate to the IDH Court and means a new obstacle in the process, which continues to urge Jineth Bedoya to listen to his voice, resulting in a new intention of silencing FL”, concluded .
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