The Office of the Attorney General charged them with threats against human rights defenders, threats and forced displacement.
After assessing the evidence provided by the Attorney General’s Office, a judge in Cartagena imposed a prison sentence against Jandi José Rivera Novoa and Yuranis Velasco Garrido, for being the alleged responsible for threats against some residents and human rights defenders of the rural area El Salado, in Carmen de Bolívar (Bolívar).
These people would be involved in different events that took place between January 15th and March 4th of the current year.
For almost two months, the victims received intimidating threats through texts and voice messages via cell phone, and their names appeared in a pamphlet with logos and allusions to an alleged armed group called ‘Águilas Negras’.
According to the investigations carried out by the Delegate Office on Public Safety and the Special Directorate against Human Rights Violations, in a joint effort with the Dijin-National Police, the threats came from a neighborhood of the El Salado, sector in which the defendants live.
Likewise, it was established that Yuranis Velasco Garrido, sister of one of the threatened leaders, allegedly used some phones and sim cards from which several intimidating text messages came from.
On the other hand, Jandi José Rivera Novoa also appears as user of one of the phone lines linked to threatening audios.
For these events, a prosecutor appointed to the Special Directorate against Human Rights Violations charged these two people with threats against human rights defenders, threats, and forced displacement. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.
This result is possible thanks to the actions defined by the Attorney General Francisco Barbosa Delgado, who, from the moment in which the community of El Salado informed about the threats, he assigned an itinerant team and coordinated the actions between the institution and Dijin-National Police to clarify the facts.
When we speak, results follow.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out the criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.