Jaime Prieto Mendez (born 1 January 1954[1]) is a Colombian human rights activist.
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights describes him as "internationally regarded as a founder of the modern Colombian human rights movement",[2] and in 1998 awarded him its Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award along with fellow Colombian activists Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez, and Mario Calixto.
[3] Prieto began his career as a teacher in a poor area of Bogotá.
In 1976, he joined the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, and in 1990 he became its executive director, a position he held until 1998.
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