 The Colombian authorities have to understand that jailing people in order to silence their opinions is completely unacceptable’.According to the Colombian victims’ organisation MOVICE, these detentions are used to obstruct the activities carried out by those working to denounce human rights abuses whilst at the same time acting to delegitimise and criminalise their work.Colombia has a past and present history of politically motivated violence.Hernando Hernandez, an elected representative for Colombia's indigenous, denounced that five members of his Democratic Pole party had been killed in the lead up to the 2011 elections.