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Colombia fails to protect iconic reporter despite police harassment and threats
Alberto Tejada (Image: Interchurch Committee for Justice and Peace)
by Adriaan Alsema August 15, 2021
Police in Cali tried to detain the voluntary bodyguards of journalist Jose Alberto Tejada, who has been suffering harassment after reporting on police brutality in Colombia’s third largest city.
In an interview with Colombia Reports, Tejada said policemen wanted to take the bodyguards into custody after an escalation of intimidating incidents involving police and armed civilians.
Volunteers of Veterans for Colombia have been providing security to the journalists after a cop allegedly threatened to kill the director of independent news outlet Canal 2.
The threat followed a series of reports in which the journalist exposed evidence of the mass violation of human rights allegedly committed by the Cali Police Department in collusion with armed civilians.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-fails-to-protect-iconic-reporter-despite-police-harassment-and-threats/