Colombia's Congress approved an anti-terrorism bill that, if passed, would allow the military to detain individuals, search homes and intercept communications without judicial warrant.
Colombia's Congress approved an anti-terrorism bill that, if passed, would allow the military to detain individuals, search homes and intercept communications without judicial warrant. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of issued a statement saying that the legislation violates the spirit of international human rights treaties to which Colombia is signatory, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a United Nations treaty based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976. , the American Convention on Human Rights The American Convention on Human Rights (also known as the Pact of San José) is an International human rights instrument. It was adopted by the nations of the Americas meeting in San José, Costa Rica, in 1969. and the Inter-American Democratic Charter The Inter-American Democratic Charter was adopted on 11 September 2001 by a special session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, held in Lima, Peru. .
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