Colombia wants court to revise police brutality ban
by Adriaan Alsema April 9, 2021
The government of Colombias far-right President Ivan Duque asked the Constitutional Court to revoke a Supreme Court order that restricted the use of police violence against protests.
The National Agency for the Defense of the State asked the court to revoke the Supreme Courts order to reform the police citing the constant disrespect for guarantees of the peoples superior right to peaceful, non-violent protest.
According to the State defense attorney, the court order that was issued in September last year allowed peaceful protesters to discredit the authority of the police.
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Human rights organizations asked the Supreme Court for protection after Duque in late 2019 tried to violently repress Colombias largest anti-government protests in more than four decades.
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