Posts Tagged ‘Police Code’
Constitutional Control for the Police Code
The constitutional control of the Police Code is absolutely necessary to prevent arbitrariness against citizens , to which the Congress of the Republic left us exposed.
Read MoreBeing detained for arguing with the police?
Last Friday at 11 pm, a friend who I was with received a call from two of her friends who told her they were being taken to the UPJ for having a beer in the Park of the Hippies in Bogotá
Read MorePrivate life in a public way
The new Police Code confuses privacy with staying at home and targets the right to privacy.
Read MoreWhy people do not like the new Police Code
Colombia has a new Police Code. The law that created these new rules for “coexistence” has 241 articles, was drafted by the Ministry of Defense in the company of the same National Police and had the approval of Congress. Its spirit, the document says, is “preventive.”
Read MoreWith the new code, the police could “legally” violate rights
Our researcher Sebastián Lalinde analyzed for El Espectador the problems with the new Police Code that is active since January 30th. Dejusticia has led two lawsuits against this law for violating the right to protest and privacy.
Read MoreDejusticia Files Suit to Protect the Right to Privacy Under the New Police Code in Colombia
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court, arguing that several articles of Colombian Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code) violate the right to privacy.
Read MoreThe right to protest, chained in the new Police Code
Dejusticia filed a lawsuit against the new norms related to protests and manifestations in Law 1801 of 2016 before the Constitutional Court on the grounds of being unconstitutional.
Read MoreDejusticia intervenes in lawsuit against Police Code in articles that regulate the right to protest
Congress acted unconstitutionally when it issued the new police code because it attempted to regulate social protest through the wrong legislative channels.
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