A/HRC/16/22 (h) On 17 June, in Arauca, several persons who had been detained on 15 June 2008 on charges of rebellion, terrorism and criminal association were released due to lack of evidence. (i) In Sucre, a human rights defender detained in November 2008, remains in detention. He was accused of criminal association with paramilitary groups, although he himself had denounced these groups. B. Intelligence services 3. Cases were reported of illegal wiretapping of emails, surveillance, information theft and harassment affecting members of different social and political organisations, allegedly conducted in some cases by members of state intelligence services. This conclusion was reached after a comprehensive analysis of different elements, which taken alone may seem irrelevant, such as the type of victim, the correlation between persons being investigated by the intelligence services and the Attorney General’s Office, the connections between the victims and specific social organisations and with previously documented cases, the modus operandi or the correlation between the time and place of certain events. (a) Pamphlets appeared in April and May containing threats against human rights organisations and other social organisations in several departments in Colombia. The information collected on the victims and the modus operandi suggest state intelligence personnel’s participation in these acts. (b) On 4 April, information was stolen from computers belonging to the Women’s Pacific Route and the Corporation for Community Eco-Development (COMUNITAR) in Popayan (Cauca) during a break-in by unknown persons into their offices. (c) On 19 July, several persons entered the home of a human rights defender in Medellín (Antioquia) and stole a computer hard disk containing reports and photographs of her activities. The victim is a member of an NGO that does social work and carries out educational activities in Commune 13 of Medellín. (d) On 10 August, unidentified persons entered the office of the Meta Civic Committee for Human Rights in Villavicencio (Meta), and stole information on its activities. C. Extrajudicial executions 4. In 2010 the drastic reduction in cases of so-called “false positives”, where people previously being held by the Army are presented as killed in combat, was confirmed. OHCHR-Colombia however continued to receive information on some cases, which confirms the need to continue efforts to fully eradicate this practice as well as any other forms of extrajudicial execution. (a) On 2 February, a soldier allegedly killed a presumed member of the FARCEP that had been injured during a bomb strike in Chaparral (Tolima). The victim was reported as killed in combat. (b) In Aipe (Huila), on 25 March, members of the Army Unified Action Groups for Personal Freedom (GAULA) assigned to the Army Ninth Brigade, allegedly killed a presumed member of the FARC-EP, a minor, who had apparently been wounded earlier during a confrontation with the GAULA. 21

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