kidnappings

Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) seeks the truth for victims of FARC kidnappings. Photo: before JEP, flowers and a computer are placed on the desk of the victims' representatives.

Colombia

A kidnapping and love letters

25 August 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

The extraordinary journey of Abby Reyes and Julie Freitas through Colombia’s transitional justice to find out about the kidnapping and murder of three US indigenous rights activists by the FARC guerilla in 1999.

In Colombia, kidnap victims come face to face with the FARC commanders responsible for these crimes. Photo: 7 former guerrilla commanders are seated, lined up in front of a desk and microphones, wearing white shirts and staring ahead. Behind them, a mural depicting people and animals.

Colombia

Getting close to victims of kidnappings in Colombia

15 July 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

During a public hearing in the mountainous village of Caicedo and then in Medellín, seven former regional commanders of the FARC started providing fragments of long-sought truths to their victims on a local level.

Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

Colombia

Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings

1 July 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

The day of reckoning has finally arrived, between June 21 and 23 in Colombia, when seven former commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced their victims in the kidnapping of thousands of people. Followin [...]

Two armed FARC fighters frame kidnapping victim in Colombia

Colombia

Kidnappings in Colombia: the reckoning

16 December 2021 by JusticeInfo.net

Kidnapping has been the most infamous practice of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The images of prisoners in cages, chained in the middle of the jungle, have captured the attention of the world's media. These crimes wi [...]

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