The human rights defender Jhon Jairo Jiménez, kidnapped on January 16 by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the department of Bolívar, was released, the representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz, reported this Monday. Massieu.
“I celebrate the release of Jhon Jiménez, Afro-Colombian leader and founding member of the National Ethnic Peace Coordination (Cenpaz). I appreciate the trust placed in the UN Mission in Colombia to contribute to it,” Ruiz wrote on his X account. .
Ruiz, who did not report where the delivery took place, accompanied his message with photos in which Jiménez appears in the company of UN officials, a priest of the Catholic Church and representatives of the Colombian Ombudsman’s Office, who formed a commission humanitarian to receive it.
The United States Government and international organizations called for the release of Jiménez Cuesta at the beginning of this month.
“We are concerned about the information about the kidnapping of the Afro-Colombian leader Jhon Jairo Jiménez Cuesta, whose NGO National Ethnic Peace Coordination (Cenpaz) is committed to the implementation of the Peace Agreement,” said the person in charge of the US State Department at the time. USA for Latin America, Brian Nichols, in his X account.
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