Today, Felix Rodrigo Sanabria completes one month of a hunger strike amid the squalid conditions of La Tramacua. La Tramacua is the first prison built under a US designed program to restructure Colombia’s prison system and increase its capacity by 40 percent. The Alliance for Global Justice has just received an urgent alert from our…
Political prisoners
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Demand Humane Treatment of Prisoners
At La Tramacua Prison in Valledupar, Colombia (designed and advised by the US Bureau of Prisons), temperatures get as high as 105 degrees, with no form of cooling, but prisoners are granted access to water only 10 minutes a day. There are no sanitary toilets and open sewage runs by the kitchen. Fecal contamination of…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Join Noam Chomsky, Others: Free Lily!
Noam Chomsky, labor writer David Bacon, Sanctuary Movement and No More Deaths Founder, Rev. John Fife and immigrant rights organizer, Isabel García are among those calling for freedom for Colombian Political Prisoner, Liliany Obando. Would you join them by endorsing a Friend of the Court statement on behalf of Ms. Obando that will be submitted…
James Patrick Jordan, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
La Tramacúa: Colombia’s Abu Ghraib
By James Jordan Special to The Narco News Bulletin August 17, 2010 This report appears on the internet at http://www.narconews.com/Issue66/article4177.html The name commonly used to refer to the Medium and High Security Penitentiary of Valledupar is “La Tramacúa.” What that name means exactly, no one is certain. But it is a name that is infamous throughout Colombia…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Inhumane Treatment of Colombian Political Prisoners
The Alliance for Global Justice has, for some time, been following the situation at the maximum security prison in Valledupar, Department of Cesar, Colombia. The conditions there are deplorable. For instance, inmates are allowed access to water only 10 minutes a day, being forced to collect water in buckets coming out of pipes at a…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Threats Against Colombian Political Prisoner
Urgent action needed! The International Network in Solidarity with Colombian Political Prisoners (of which the Alliance for Global Justice is a member) is calling for people to take urgent action on behalf of Liliany Obando, a Colombian political prisoner, regarding human rights abuses and threats against her. Liliany Obando is being subjected to a campaign…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Legal Defense of Liliany Obando, Colombian Political Prisoner
We have received an urgent request for financial support regarding the legal defense of Liliany Obando, a Colombian labor unionist, human rights activist, independent filmmaker and political prisoner. We need to raise $1,000 as quickly as possible to cover expenses regarding the collection of evidence vital to her case, which goes back in session in…
Action alerts, Political prisoners
Human Rights Advocates Given Maximum Federal Prison Sentences
Judge Finds SOA Watch Activists Guilty of Carrying Direct Action Protest Against the SOA/WHINSEC onto Fort Benning, Issues Arrest Warrant for Michael Walli for Refusing to Appear for the Trial. This press release was issued by School of the Americas Watch. On Monday, January 25, 2010, U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced three human rights…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Human Rights Day for All, and for All the Good Fight!
[Below is a statement from the International Network in Solidarity with the Colombian Political Prisoners. AFGJ urges you to take action.] On this Human Rights Day, the International Network in Solidarity with the Colombian Political Prisoners (INSPP) calls attention to the violation of the human rights of Colombia’s political opposition and its supporters. The Colombian…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
International Day in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners
September 12, 2009 Campaign for Labor Rights ACTION ALERT Colombia’s Permanent Campaign in Solidarity with the Political Detainees “Behind the Walls” and the International Network in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners are calling on organizations around the world to participate in an International Day in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners on October 1st, 2009. Throughout…
