Killings of human rights defenders in Colombia fell to 139 last year, compared with 199 in 2020, local advocacy group Somos Defensores said on Thursday, though it found that overall acts of intimidation and violence rose slightly.
Despite the decline in killings, the number of cases remained alarming, Somos Defensores said in a report, adding that annual activist murders remain higher than in the years prior to the 2016 peace deal between the government and the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
