For our political prisoners A song for life and dignity
Criminalization policies implemented by the state, reflected also in the laws that criminalize social protest have led to the deprivation of freedom of peasants, students, human rights advocates, urban residents, trade unionists, ethnic groups or anyoneconsidered a threat to "national security", including those who decided to exercise the right to rebel with weapons.
The Colombian prisons are hundreds of poor settlers in rural areas and small towns, who are victims of indiscriminate mass arrests suspected militants identified to be of the guerrilla arbitrariness in the background just looking disrupt communities opposed to the implementation of large economic projects, as with ten farmers of Tona, currently detained in high security prison Palogordo, prosecuted for the crime of rebellion from the August 6, 2010.
Apart from support extremely high sentences, political prisoners and the rest of the general prison population receive poor medical care, becoming a systemic problem that causes death. A clear example is the case of Jose Albeiro Manjarres Cupitre, who died in total abandonment to the flag of Health of Bucaramanga Model Prison on January 8, 2011, or of political prisoner Arcecio Lemus, who on June 1 2010, died in a hospital after suffering Ibagué for over a month the negligence of medical personnel and prison delestablecimiento high security prison of the Golden Juana Caldas, as happened with political prisoners and Othniel Jordan Javier Calderon Ramirez Ovalle who lost life due to lack of adequate and timely attention by the prison authorities and health.
Breach of the obligation to guarantee the human rights of people deprived of freedom, joins the Colombian state vindictive action against political prisoners, reflected inter alia in negligence or indolence which is assumed from those who have serious illness or end-stage anotómica disabled with loss of organs from their bodies.
Such is the case of Juan Emilio Cabezas Street who despite suffering from terminal cancer of the lymphatic system is kept under the rigors of prison denied him house arrest, Meneses Carvajalino Diomedes or reduced to a wheelchair as a result of torture to which he underwent in his capture, now about to lose his left foot due to lack of proper medical care. Another case in point is the Orlando Salcedo Buenahora, political prisoner of the Modelo Prison in Cucuta, who during a transfer to Palogordo where he remained completely shackled, he introduced a bug in the right eye, causing an infection that was not treated despite their requests, advancing to the point that gave him total loss of vision on this side, which has been advanced to the situation izquierdo.Igual suffering political prisoners and Martin Sanabria Emilio Villanueva Ochoa Johan Deivis diagnosed with diabetes , severe and progressive disease difficult to treat from Colombian prisons.
The case of Jose Albeiro Manjarres Cupitre, Arcecio Lemus, Jordan Javier Ramirez, Othniel Ovalle Calderon joins the numerous cases of political prisoners in Colombian jails die due to the systematic neglect of the state. His death is not only a flagrant violation of international law of human rights related to treatment should receive the population deprived of freedom in conditions of severe disease, but it is an open disregard of international humanitarian law by since a number of political prisoners are rebel fighters captured by the Colombian State.
The calls FCSPP to commemorate the day of political prisoner, recognizing that their existence is due to deep and historical factors that have caused a social and political conflict in our country for over four decades, the Colombian society to find solutions.Therefore, the release of political prisoners is a matter for social organizations and the general population.