
Front Line is extremely concerned following reports of a campaign of judicial harassment against members of the Asociación Campesina del Valle del Río Cimitarra – ACVC (Peasant Association of Cimitarra River Valley). Eighteen members of the ACVC currently face judicial procedures, including Andrés Gil, Óscar Duque (pictured), Mario Martínez and Evaristo Mena, who were arrested on 29 August 2007 and are still detained at Modelo prison in Bucaramanga. 