Authority: American Commission on Human rights

Date: 05/26/2010

Subject: The Court has sentenced Colombia for the violation of the rights to life and to personal integrity, to legal protection, to the protection of honor and dignity, to the freedom of thought and of expression and to liberty of association, in relation to the extra-judicial execution of the senator of the Colombian communist party, Manuel Cepeda Vargas

Parties: Caso Manuel Cepeda Vargas c/ Colombia

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 10 Freedom of thought - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Art. 12 Freedom of association

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