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The National Government called an emergency meeting in the House of Nariño to study the ruling of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice that gives it transcendental orders for the management of social protest.
(In context: The 14 orders of the Court for the ‘systematic aggression’ to the protest)
Since seven in the morning of this Wednesday, the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo; Diego Molano, director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency, and the members of the legal team.
The meeting in which the response is being prepared was confirmed to EL TIEMPO by sources from the National Government.
(Also read: Six keys to the ruling that requires guaranteeing peaceful protest)
On the afternoon of this Tuesday, the high court reported that after showing “a national problem of systematic, violent, arbitrary and disproportionate intervention by the Public Force in citizen demonstrations,” it ordered the President of the Republic, and all the others authorities involved in the management of social mobilizations, adopt actions to guarantee the exercise of the right to peaceful and non-destructive protest.
The decision of six of the eight magistrates of the Chamber protected the rights of a group of 49 people and therefore requests to implement a protocol of preventive, concomitant and subsequent actions that will be called ‘Statute of reaction, use and verification of the legitimate force of the State, and protection of the right to peaceful citizen protest ‘.
It is a historical failure in which, For the first time, a high court pronounces itself in the background and issues several orders in the face of acts of police brutality and the excesses in the use of force against peaceful protest.
(Also: ‘The political conditions for a police reform are not in place’)
In that 171-page ruling, which generated controversy in the same Court and in which two magistrates saved their vote, the high court evaluated various evidence, videos and testimonies of events in Bogotá, Cali, Medellín or Barranquilla in which the Esmad , the Police and even the Army arbitrarily intervened in the demonstrations of the 2019 national strike.
Among the cases evaluated, the Court took into account the videos on the death of the young Dilan Cruz, who died after receiving a projectile fired by a shotgun from an Esmad agent; the kick in the face that a woman received during a demonstration in Bogotá; the beatings suffered by several students near the Universidad de los Andes and the arbitrary detention of one of them, or the dissolution of a peaceful protest in the Plaza de Bolívar with gases.
It also valued several sentences from the Council of State and even the Inter-American Court for excesses and arbitrariness in the use of force.
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