A/HRC/7/39 page 29 members of the Taurema Battalion and the investigation was taken by Military Criminal Court 13. The investigation of the killing of a peasant farmer on 26 April in Abrego, Norte de Santander, allegedly committed by members of Battalion 15, was sent to Military Criminal Court 37. 13. The office was also informed of cases in which prosecutors of the civil jurisdiction sent case files opened for homicides with characteristics of extrajudicial executions to the military jurisdiction. In the case of the murder of the president of the Community Action Board of La Union, Yondó, on 25 June, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Barrancabermeja sent the case to Military Criminal Court 14. In several cases of civilians reported as killed in combat in Aguazul, Casanare, the Attorney General’s Office remitted the cases to the Military Criminal Courts. 14. The office was informed that certain judges in the criminal military system who intended to return case files to the civil courts came under pressure from the commanding officers of the units. 15. The office also received information on cases in which the work of the justice system was obstructed. On 15 February, after a clash in which four individuals died in La Gloria, Cesar, police personnel had no access to the crime scene, and the official reports on the bodies were prepared by Army personnel. E. The right to private life and inviolability of domicile 16. On 26 January, a peasant farmer was detained by Army personnel in Fortul, Arauca, accused of being a guerrilla. He was taken to Bogotá, where he was presented before several national media. Two days later he was released, due to an error of identification. 17. On 25 January, soldiers of the Mechanized Infantry Battalion No. 3, entered the indigenous reserve of Chagui Chimbuza, Nariño, and with no judicial order, searched the houses of several members of the Awá indigenous communities. 18. Human rights organizations in Bogotá, such as JUSTAPAZ (Centro Cristiano para Justicia, Paz y Acción Noviolenta) and Corporación Juridica Yira Castro, reported that during June, August and November their offices were broken into, and the hard disks containing information on their work with victims were stolen from their computers. F. The right to freedom of opinion and expression 19. The Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP, Foundation for Press Freedom) recorded 92 cases of death threats against journalists. 20. In Bogotá, in September, the journalists Hollman Morris and Gonzalo Guillén received death threats over the telephone and by e-mail, as a result of their work on human rights issues and the process of demobilization of paramilitaries

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