Refworld | Colombia: 1. Please provide a description of an attack on protesters by the authorities (Anti-disturbance Mobile Squadrons or ESMAD) on 22 September 2005 at Valley University (Universidad del Valle - CERUV), including a list of the names of killed or wounded. Please include any eyewitness type reports with specific details. 2. Please provide information about ensuing, related protests, including about a protest at La Ermita church. 3. Please advise as to whether there was a national strike in Bogota on 22 May 2007? What was its purpose? 4. Please advise whether student activists were targeted in 2006 or 2007 by paramilitaries or the authorities? For what reasons were they targeted? Is there evidence they were seriously harmed?

Title	Colombia: 1. Please provide a description of an attack on protesters by the authorities (Anti-disturbance Mobile Squadrons or ESMAD) on 22 September 2005 at Valley University (Universidad del Valle - CERUV), including a list of the names of killed or wounded. Please include any eyewitness type reports with specific details. 2. Please provide information about ensuing, related protests, including about a protest at La Ermita church. 3. Please advise as to whether there was a national strike in Bogota on 22 May 2007? What was its purpose? 4. Please advise whether student activists were targeted in 2006 or 2007 by paramilitaries or the authorities? For what reasons were they targeted? Is there evidence they were seriously harmed?
Publisher	Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal
Publication Date	16 April 2008
Country	Colombia
Topics	Freedom of assembly and association \| Freedom of expression \| Freedom of information \| Freedom of speech \| Human rights activists \| Security situation
Citation / Document Symbol	COL33017
Cite as	Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal, Colombia: 1. Please provide a description of an attack on protesters by the authorities (Anti-disturbance Mobile Squadrons or ESMAD) on 22 September 2005 at Valley University (Universidad del Valle - CERUV), including a list of the names of killed or wounded. Please include any eyewitness type reports with specific details. 2. Please provide information about ensuing, related protests, including about a protest at La Ermita church. 3. Please advise as to whether there was a national strike in Bogota on 22 May 2007? What was its purpose? 4. Please advise whether student activists were targeted in 2006 or 2007 by paramilitaries or the authorities? For what reasons were they targeted? Is there evidence they were seriously harmed?, 16 April 2008, COL33017, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4f42190f2.html [accessed 29 May 2023]
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