Colombia: Afro-descendent men forcibly disappeared

Index Number: AMR 23/025/2011
Date Published: 9 August 2011
Categories: Colombia

Francisco Pineda and Everto González, two members of the community council of Caracolí, north-west Colombia, have been subjected to enforced disappearance by paramilitaries. Amnesty International fears their lives and the lives of other members of the Afro-descendant community may be at risk.