Colombia: Human rights defender and community leader José Dionisio Lozano Torralvo assassinated on 12 August 2007

Front Line is greatly saddened to learn of the assassination of José Dionisio Lozano Torralvo. He was Vice President of the Municipal Coordination of Social Organisations (Coordinación Municipal de Organizaciones Sociales) in San Ofofre, President of the Committee of Peasant Farm Workers (Comité de Usuarios Campesinos) in the region of Pajonal and leader of the National Movement for Victims of State Crimes (El Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado) for San Ofofre.

José Dionisio Lozano Torralvo's killers are unknown. His death takes place after he started mobilising farm workers and victims of violence and the setting up of a farmhouse as a centre for the development of local produce in the region.