The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) presented a formal complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the unpunished killings of Colombian journalists, whose statue of limitation expires this year, reported the Associated Press.
Colombian police were unable to solve the killings of Julio Chaparro and Jorge Torres because the statue of limitations expired 20 years after their death. IAPA presented its complaint to the Commission on Dec. 2, the organization reported Dec. 6.
Chaparro and Torres were killed on Apr. 24, 1991, in the city of Segovia, Antioquia. The journalists had been sent there by the newspaper El Espectador to report on the aftereffects of a massacre of 43 people two years before.
