{"id":7833,"date":"2020-03-24T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2021-07-02T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:30:26","slug":"alert-jail-situation-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redcolombia.org\/?p=7833","title":{"rendered":"alert jail situation in colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TO\nTHE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23\nMarch 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nIn\nthe framework of the emergency measures resulting from the virus that\ncauses Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Sars-Cov 2 (COVID-19), on\nMarch 21, a day of protest was held on March 21, 2020 from 9:00 p.m,\nin many of Colombia\u00b4s prison and penitentiary centers, in which\nthose people who are deprived of liberty demanded effective sanitary\nmeasures that would protect those in State custody. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nlist of demands presented by people deprived of liberty contained\nmeasures to alleviate overcrowding, which is at an alarming 153% in\nColombia, as well as basic health measures to prevent contagions in\nprisons. The lack of responses from the Central Government triggered\na series of mutinies at a national level that ended with more than 20\ndead prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nshould be noted that the Colombian prison population, according to\nfigures from November 2019, is 33.5% made up of people who have not\nhad their legal situation resolved, and are thefore innocent until\nproven guilty. 24.9% of the population are seniors, 10.9% for the\ndisabled and 0.9% are pregnant and lactating mothers, with 69\nchildren under three years of age in the detention centers, living\nwith their mothers. Faced with these population groups, the\napplication of differential measures has been requested in recent\nmonths by the National Prison Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced\nwith a the persitent neglect of any requests presented by prisoners\nand the scenario of generalized panic, caused by the lack of\neffective sanitary measures in the prison centers, the government’s\nresponse translated into a massacre on the night of March 21 and dawn\non March 22 in the Modelo prison in the city of Bogot\u00e1. It is\nimportant to note that now at two days after the events, there has\nbeen a systematic refusal to provide official information on dead and\nwounded people, in addition to subsequent punitive measures against\nthe prison population, such as prolonged deprivation of food and\nwater, forced undressing and beatings in the Combita, Modelo, C\u00facuta,\nPicota, Picale\u00f1a and Puerto Berrio prisons, mainly incurring in\ncruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\norganizations defending Human Rights, social organizations and\nassociations of relatives of people deprived of liberty, we demand\nthe application of the Minnesota Protocol1<\/sup><\/a><\/sup>\nfor the investigation of deaths caused in the repression of these\nriots. You can’t cover up ineptitude, procrastination, and neglect\nwith deaths. Each of the people who have lost their lives is a result\nof a systematic and prolonged omission by the Colombian State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nIn\nthis scenario, we watch with frustration as the emergency\u00b4s most\nsevere effects fall on the most vulnerable population. We ask for\nnothing less than the enforcement of the fundamental rights of the\nvulnerable population deprived of liberty, the enforcement of the\nprohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and effective\nmeasures by the National Government to confront the imminent\ndeepening of the public health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exercising\nuniversal jurisdiction over crimes against humanity and serious\nviolations of Human Rights, we request the international community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. \nExpress\n\ttheir rejection of these treatments that violate the Human Rights of\n\tthe population deprived of liberty. \n\t\n\t<\/li>
  2. \nDemand\n\tthat the Colombian Government carry out an effective, impartial and\n\tindependent investigation; with full application of the Minnesota\n\tProtocol on the serious events that occurred on the night of March\n\t21 and the early hours of March 22 in penitentiary centers located\n\taround the entire national territory. \n\t\n\t<\/li>
  3. \nExecution\n\tof all measures aimed at safeguarding the life and integrity of\n\tpersons deprived of liberty, within the framework of the emergency\n\tmeasures issued to counteract the effects of Sars-Cov 2 (COVID-19). \n\t\n\t<\/li>
  4. \nRequest\n\tthe visit of the United Nations Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons\n\tDeprived of Liberty, to the different prison centers in the country;\n\tas well as the effective application of the emergency measures\n\tarranged to counteract the effects of Sars-Cov 2 (COVID-19) on\n\tpersons deprived of liberty.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \nNational Human Rights\nCommittee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Congreso\nde los Pueblos <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1<\/a>\u0002\n\tThe purpose of the Minnesota Protocol is to protect the right to\n\tlife and to promote justice, accountability, and the right to\n\treparation by promoting an effective investigation of any\n\tpotentially wrongful death or suspected enforced disappearance. It\n\tis used to investigate those deaths that occur when the person was\n\tdetained, or was in the custody of the State, its organs or agents.\n\tThis assumption includes, for example, all deaths of people detained\n\tin prisons, in other places of confinement (official and otherwise)\n\tand in other facilities where the State exercises greater control\n\tover their lives. <\/em>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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