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COLOMBIA
CASE No. CO/130 - JORGE TADEO LOZANO OSORIO

Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 180th session
(Nusa Dua, Bali, 4 May 2007)

The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Jorge Tadeo Lozano Osorio, a former member of the Colombian Congress, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/180/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 179th session (October 2006),

Recalling that Mr. Lozano was convicted and given a heavy prison sentence as a result of fundamentally flawed proceedings without being afforded the possibility of challenging them on appeal,

Recalling that: in 2001 Mr. Lozano brought his case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; the Executive Secretary of the Commission, which at first considered Mr. Lozano's petition inadmissible, subsequently stated in August 2002 that it would be re-examined in the light of the Commission's jurisprudence, although no information has since been forthcoming on any such action; despite assurances that the case would be raised at the Commission's 125th session in July 2006, it was not considered on that occasion; noting that, although the Commission has since held its 126th session (16 to 27 October 2006) and 127th session (26 February to 9 March 2007), no information has been forthcoming on Mr. Lozano's case,

  1. Reasserts its conviction that full and swift consideration of Mr. Lozano's case by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is crucial to helping effectively to address the wrong he sustained and to increasing the likelihood of his being afforded appropriate redress by the Colombian authorities;

  2. Infers from the lack of any information in this regard that, more than three and a half years after assurances were first given that a re-examination would take place, the Inter-American Commission has yet to re-examine Mr. Lozano's case;

  3. Earnestly hopes that the Commission will soon rule on the merits of the case; and anxiously awaits information on developments in this regard;

  4. Requests the Secretary General to follow up the matter with the Commission, and to inform the competent Colombian authorities and Mr. Lozano accordingly;

  5. Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 117th Assembly (October 2007).
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