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  • Colombia on Tuesday accused judges sitting on an Americas-wide human rights court of "bias" in a hearing into the kidnapping, rape and torture of a journalist. World Press Freedom award winning journalist Jineth Bedoya on Monday accused the Colombian state of complicity in her ordeal as she testified at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. "I am concerned about sitting with judges that lack impartiality in their assessments and in the context of a judicial hearing," Camilo Gomez, the director of Colombia's National Agency for Legal Defense of the State, told W Radio. The court is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS). "It's not possible for the court's bias to mean that the state is guilty upon entering ... they cannot condemn it before even hearing it," said Gomez, who quit Monday's virtual hearing and demanded the judges be recused. On Monday, Bedoya testified to the court that in 2000 she was seized by a group of right-wing paramilitaries from outside a prison in the capital Bogota and then tortured and raped for 16 hours before being abandoned on the side of a road. At the time, Bedoya was investigating an arms trafficking network operating out of the La Modelo prison and claimed the state, including an "influential" police chief, was complicit in her abduction. The paramilitaries, some of whom have already been convicted for the crimes committed against Bedoya, were right-wing militias that fought left-wing guerrillas during Colombia's bloody 60-year conflict. They were dissolved in 2006. Bedoya says she has since suffered two decades of "persecution, intimidation and constant threats." Her lawyer, Viviana Krsticevic, said Bedoya is "looking for (the state) to acknowledge what happened... (and) the levels of participation of different state bodies in the acts of violence and impunity." Tuesday's hearing was suspended by the court without giving a reason. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights referred the case to the court in 2019, considering that the Colombian state had failed to implement recommendations to investigate Bedoya's case, pay damages and adopt measures to prevent a repeat of such incidents. The commission said the state knew the risks Bedoya was taking but failed to protect her. lv/jss/mps/bc/jm
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  • Colombia accuses court of 'bias' in rape, torture case
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