There are 654 foreigners incarcerated in Colombia, according to a report by Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC, reported Spanish news agency EFE Monday. “In recent years the number of foreigners…
Three army officers have been removed from their posts at the Tolemaida military base, following preliminary investigations into the alleged ‘special treatment’ of imprisoned officers and the escape attempt by…
The Inspector General’s Office on Monday appealed against the Superior Tribunal of Bogota’s decision to sentence former paramilitary Jorge Ivan Laverde Zapata, alias “El Iguano,” to only eight years in…
Politicians convicted for links to paramilitaries and jailed in Bogota’s infamous La Picota prison are getting special privileges, such as vallenato parties and regular trips outside of the jail, reports Caracol Radio. In…
Colombian Francisco “Francisquito” Javier Ospino Polo, who is 80 years old, is sentenced to 48 years in prison for the murder of Canadian citizen John Patrick Haid in a botched…
Former paramilitary boss Ever Veloza Garcia, alias “HH,” pleaded guilty to the murder of thirteen people in the Colombian departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Antioquia between 2001 and…
Officials at the infamous La Modelo prison in Bogota told the Colombian prison authority (INPEC) that COP77 million ($38,000) was stolen from a safe in the administrative section of the…
Two members of Colombia’s armed forces were sentenced to 28 years in jail on Thursday for murdering innocent civilians and presenting the bodies as guerrillas killed in action, reports Colombian media.…
Two FARC guerrillas were sentenced to nineteen years and three months in jail for the kidnap of the three U.S. contractors, who were later rescued by the Colombian military in…