Colombia intelligence official arrested for ‘psychological torture’ of journalist
Colombia intelligence official arrested for ‘psychological torture’ of journalist
Nov 25, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie
Claudia Duque
The Prosecutor General’s office has captured a seventh member of Colombia’s now-defunct secret police wanted in connection to the psychological abuse of a journalist.
To date, three high-level officials of Colombia’s former intelligence agency (DAS) are on trial and three more have pled guilty to the “psychological torture” of journalist Claudia Duque, who was investigating the 1999 murder of another journalist.
According to the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press, Duque received repeated phone threats between 2003 and 2004, including one that elaborated the torture and rape of her 10-year-old daughter.
Duque was threatened in reprisal for her investigations into the 1999 murder of another journalist, Jamie Garzon, whose assassination has been linked to paramilitary organization AUC and the DAS.
The Garzon case
At the time she began receiving death threats, Duque was looking into irregularities in the case of Jaime Garzon, a popular Colombian journalist and satirist who was gunned down in 1999. Although police have captured two key suspects in the case, investigations have nonetheless stalled in the system for over 15 years. According to the Colombian Commission of Jurors, the prosecution has been hampered by criminal acts, including “deliberate diversion” by former government officials linked to the murder.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombia-intelligence-official-arrested-psychological-torture-journalist/
