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sedition of her fellow defenders Mmes Naranjo, Mosquera and Yarce on November 12, 2002.373 She
departed from her neighborhood with her husband and their 22-year-old and 21-year-old sons and 12year-old daughter.374 She denounced several events later with the authorities, including the attack of
her husband by members of the military during a search of her home in Comuna 13 without a warrant
on March 3, 2003; the searches performed in the same between March 3 and July 8 of 2003; and the
occupation of the members of the paramilitary groups on July 8, 2003, fully dismantling it.375 Ms. Luz
Dary Ospina Bastidas currently lives in a rented apartment in the neighborhood of Belén La Capilla in the
City of Medellin and has been prevented from returning to Comuna 13.376 She has not resumed her
work as a leader out of fear of retaliation.377
276. Ms. Mosquera was also subjected to an illegal and arbitrary detention by the public
security forces from November 12 to 21, 2002, in the terms described above on paragraphs 237-249.
This detention led her to leave Comuna 13 until 2004, and she described this displacement before the
IACHR as follows:
When I got my freedom back I went to my mother’s house out of fear of retaliation and
especially that I would be killed, because a paramilitary member sent word to me that I should
not even think of going up to the neighborhood because he would kill me. The because of that
and out of fear that I would be located I stayed in several different places and even slept out on
the street, in hotels and at my friend’s houses. I experienced all of this with my daughter Hilda
Milena and son Lubin Alfonso, since they had to come to where I was because that same
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paramilitary member told him that he had to leave the neighborhood.
277. Accordingly, the IACHR notes that it requested an expansion of provisional measures on
March 3, 2011 in order to protect the life and safety of Ms. Mosquera’s children, grandchildren, and one
of her daughters-in-law in response to several assaults, threats harassment taking place “intensely and
repeatedly” in the past few months.379
As was noted above, the Court granted the request for
expansion of coverage of the provisional measures, citing the situation of risk of the proposed
beneficiaries, as well as their concern over the alleged involvement of agents of the state.
278. Regarding Ms. Naranjo, even though she is currently living in Comuna 13 together with
family members, the petitioners have submitted information indicating that she has had to travel away
373
Annex 15. Statement from Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012.
374
Annex 15. Statement from Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012.
375
Annex 29. Technical Report, Preventive Recovery of Real Property, Local Committee of the Government of Comuna
13, October 17, 2006.
376
Observations of the petitioners in reference to the matter of Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa et al – Case 12.595,
dated May 3, 2012, pg. 4.
377
Annex 15. Statement from Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012.
378
Annex 79. Statement from Miryam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa received by GIDH addressed to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, April 27, 2012.
379
IACHR, Request for Expansion of Provisional Measures to the Honorable Inter-American Court of Human Rights in
reference to the Matter of Mery Naranjo et al – Comuna 13, Colombia, March 3, 2011, par. 2.