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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 04/03/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/748">James Jordan</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>The International Network in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (INSPP) received the wonderful news on February 29 that Colombian labour activist, human rights defender and political prisoner Liliany Obando was to be released on bond the next day. </p>
<p>Obando had been in jail for three years and seven months on charges of "rebellion".</p>
<p>Obando was arrested on August 8, 2008 while serving as the human rights coordinator for Agricultural Workers Union Federation of Colombia (Fengasuagro), Colombia's largest organisation of peasant farmers and farm workers unions and associations. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50248" target="_blank">read more</a></p>