Torture report on Colombia
NZPA-Reuter London Amnesty International has accused Colombia, one of Latin America’s few surviving democracies, of systematically torturing political* prisoners and of widespread arbitrary arrests. The London-based human rights organisation made its charges as Left-wing guerrillas held 20 hostages, including- 11 ambassadors, inside the Dominican Republic’s embassy in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Amnesty’s indictment came in the form of a report by a fact-finding mission it sent to. Colombia in January. Amnesty International, joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, said its investigative mission- had
found a pattern of widespread arbitrary, arrests in ; Colombia. It identified 33 centres where torture had been reported,' and . about 50' methods of torture, ranging from psychological to beat- [ ings, burning, the use of drugs, and electric shock. Amnesty < said it had recommended the Colombian • Government to end a 30- ■ year state of siege which, it said, had resulted in the quasi-permaneht :of human-rights guarantees : in Colombia’s constitution. Its report, sent to the Colombian Government this , month, recognised that there I had been acts of violence by > some opposition' groups 1 within Colombia, .
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Press, 18 April 1980, Page 6
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