{"id":15171,"date":"2021-01-28T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=19272"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:50:16","slug":"too-sad-for-words-11-year-old-boy-receives-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/too-sad-for-words-11-year-old-boy-receives-death-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Too sad for words: 11-year-old boy receives death threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<img src="https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/01\/27\/10\/Screenshot%202021-01-27%20at%2010.18.59.png?width=982&height=726&auto=webp&quality=75&quot<\/a>; alt="<p>Francisco Vera<\/p>
Francisco Vera (Reporter\u2019s screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clea Skopeliti<\/a> reports in the Independent of 27 January 2021 that an 11-year-old environmental<\/a> and children\u2019s rights activist in Colombia<\/a> has received death threats after he urged the government to improve children\u2019s access to remote education during the Covid-19<\/a> pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francisco Vera <\/strong><\/span>was sent a death threat from an anonymous Twitter account in mid-January after posting a video calling on the government to better internet connection for pupils learning from home during the coronavirus crisis.\u00a0 The child activist has since been awarded with a letter of congratulations from the UN for his work, personally delivered by a UN representative who also expressed solidarity with the 11-year-old for the intimidation he has faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francisco\u2019s mother, Ana Mar\u00eda Manzanare was the first to noticed  the threatening messages. Ms Manzanare told Columbian newspaper El Tiempo<\/em><\/a>: \u201cI was the one who noticed that message because I checked all of Francisco’s networks. He had already received many ridicules, criticism and insults for his activism in defence of life and the environment, but he had never been threatened with death.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombian President Ivan Duque condemned the threats of violence, and ordered the police to \u201cfind those bandits\u201d who threatened Francisco. Police say the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/child-activist-death-threats-climate-activism-b1793364.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clea Skopeliti reports in the Independent of 27 January 2021 that an 11-year-old environmental and children\u2019s rights activist in Colombia has received death threats after he urged the government to improve children\u2019s access to remote education during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0 Francisco Vera was sent a death threat from an anonymous Twitter account in mid-January after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,3268,1007,3269,1455,3270,1424,3271,739,1680],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26511,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions\/26511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}