December 2, 2025

The family of a Colombian man killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Caribbean filed a formal complaint Tuesday with a multinational human rights commission accusing the Trump administration of violating international law by carrying out an extrajudicial killing.

Relatives of Alejandro Carranza Medina argue in a complaint filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that he was denied his rights under international law to due process and a fair trial when he was killed in the Sept. 15 airstrike off the coast of Colombia in what U.S. authorities said was an attack on drug smugglers.

Though IACHR rulings aren’t binding on the U.S. government, the family’s petition is the first legal challenge of airstrikes conducted under President Donald Trump that have killed at least 83 people off the coasts of Central and South America.

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