March 16, 2021
Colombia’s state representative walked out of an Interamerican Human Rights Court hearing on Monday while on trial over its alleged responsibility in the 2000 rape of a journalist.
The decision of state attorney Camilo Gomez to abandon the hearing on claims the court was “prejudiced” shocked the director of freedom of the press foundation (FLIP), which supports journalist Jineth Bedoya.
State defense attorney Camilo Gomez
The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) took the State to the highest human rights court in the Americas in 2019 after finding that Colombian justice made little to no effort to achieve justice for the journalist.