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Threatened Colombian journalist wins Human Rights Watch award
August 10, 2010
(Knight Centre) Colombian Carina Solano Padilla received the Hellman/Hammett grant, from the organization Human Rights Watch, for journalists and writers who have faced political persecution, reported the news agency DPA.
According to Human Rights Watch, Solano is a freelance Colombian journalist who after reporting in 2006 on the demobilization of the paramilitary and other armed groups looking to receive amnesty, began to receive death threats. Her situation worsened when in 2008 she reported on a mayoral candidate who had been part of the demobilization.