Colombia revictimizes and impedes access to justice for Jineth Bedoya Lima
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Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 12 March 2018, Photo: stephan-roehl.de, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Colombia s National Agency for Legal Defense alleged that the majority of the Inter-American Court’s judges are not impartial in the case. The State decided to leave the hearing, and the State’s witness did not appear to testify before the Court.
This joint statement by FLIP and CEJIL was originally published on flip.org.co on 16 March 2021.
On Monday, March 15, the public hearing in the case of Jineth Bedoya Lima began at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. At issue before the court is the State’s responsibility for threats against Jineth Bedoya, as well as her kidnapping, torture and rape in May 2000. During the hearing,
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