Colombia: Fear for Safety: Members of human rights NGO Corporación COMPROMISO

Index Number: AMR 23/025/2006
Date Published: 21 May 2006
Categories: Americas, Colombia

Paramilitaries have sent a death threat by email to a human rights organization based in the city of Bucaramanga, in the department of Santander. Amnesty International believes its staff are in danger. The email was sent on 17 May to the Corporación "COMPROMISO", which works to promote and protect human rights in the north-east of Colombia