Jaime Prieto

Jaime Prieto "is a prominent human rights defender and former president of the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners." 

"Jaime Prieto Mendez is one of the leading figures in the Colombian human rights movement, serving from 1990 to 1998 as executive director of the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, the most effective advocates in the country for those imprisoned for political beliefs." 


 * Recipient of the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award