Persecuted, threatened with death and exiled in France, the author of the documentary series “Matarife”, talks about what millions of Colombians keep silent out of fear and what few media outlets reveal. He talks about how there can be no democracy where there is no real journalism and where the media are biased in favour of the government and dedicate themselves to applauding it and sponsoring its crimes.
Human Rights
Colombia: The end of peace, the return to conflict
Five years on, broken promises are the main feature of the peace agreement signed between the government and the FARC guerrillas. President Ivan Duque’s party are doing all they can to de-legitimize it. Money disappears, and useless bureaucracy flourishes in what many say is a mafia state.
Women as spoils of war
Raped in the fields, in the bushes or in their own homes. Many of them getting pregnant by the soldiers. The armed conflict has allowed the systematic abuse of almost 5,000 rural women in Peru. But they lost their fear to relive and recount their painful experiences.
Extradition of Julian Assange: officially and blatantly political
A tragic day for all democracy in the world and for the man who demonstrated a breadth of ethics and courage that still does not exist, for the man who opened the Pandora’s Box of the Deep State. His extradition falls into the hands of the same people who planned […]
Nazanin Zaghari’s husband goes on strike again
Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is demanding urgent action from Government over his wife’s continued detention in Iran. Protest comes a week after Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s most recent appeal was rejected. Responding to the announcement of a hunger strike outside the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office by Richard Ratcliffe, Amnesty International said […]
















