The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a ruling holding Colombia’s government responsible for the kidnap, torture, and rape of a journalist by paramilitary groups in 2000. The ruling said the attacks against Bedoya “could not have been carried out without the consent and collaboration of the [Colombian] State, or at least with its tolerance.”
Jineth Bedoya, a reporter at the time for the El Espectador newspaper, was investigating a weapons smuggling ring when she was abducted and assaulted by far-right militia members.
Bedoya tweeted, “October 18, 2021 goes down in history as the day when a struggle that began with an individual crime has led to the vindication of the rights of thousands of women who have been victims of sexual violence and of women journalists who leave a part of their lives in their work.”
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