CASE N° CO/121 - PIEDAD CÓRDOBA
Resolution adopted unanimously by the Governing Council
at its 174rd session (Mexico, 23 April 2004)
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the outline of the case of Ms. Piedad Córdoba of Colombia, as contained in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/174/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 173rd session (October 2003),
Recalling that Ms. Córdoba was kidnapped on 21 May 1999 by the "Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia" (AUC) and held by them until 4 June 1999; upon her release, she had to go into exile owing to death threats, reportedly also made by the AUC; she returned to Colombia and has since been the target of attempts on her life, in December 2002 and in January 2003,
Recalling that an investigation was instituted into the kidnapping; the preventive detention of AUC leader Carlos Castaño Gil was ordered, and the investigation against him was closed pending the court's determination of whether the case against him could proceed to the trial stage; another person, Iván Roberto Duque Gaviria, was declared guilty in absentia,
Recalling that, at the time of the Secretary General's on-site mission to Bogotá (31 March and 1 April 2003), a new plan to kill Ms. Córdoba was revealed; recalling also that Ms. Córdoba has reportedly been receiving death threats ...
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