46 Colombian soldiers suspected of committing extrajudicial killings were this weekend treated to a day of clowns, aromatherapy and fine dining. The soldiers have been confined to military bases south of…
A Bogota judge ordered the immediate release of another seven suspects in the extrajudicial executions of eleven young men. A total of 38 soldiers, suspected of having recruited and then…
Seven soldiers were sentenced on Thursday to 24 years in prison for the murder of four civilians in 2006. The sentences, which are legally mandated to be 40 years, were…
A Colombian judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a further seven soldiers accused of involvement in the Soacha “false positives” extrajudicial killings, due to the expiry of the legal…
Six more soldiers, all suspected of the extrajudicial murders of eleven young men from Soacha, were released on Tuesday after the prosecution was not able to call the suspects to…
The Colombian government has rejected the recent release of suspected guerillas, and of seventeen soldiers accused of extrajudicial executions. The soldiers and the guerrillas were released after judges ruled that…
The investigation into the 2008 kidnap and murder of eleven young men from Soacha will continue despite the release of seventeen soldiers implicated in the country’s most famous “false positives”…
A Colombian judge on Thursday ordered the release of seventeen soldiers implicated in the extrajudicial killings of eleven young men from Soacha in 2008. Defense lawyers petitioned the judge for…
Colombian government officials acknowledge as many as 15 new cases of “false positives”: extrajudicial killings by the armed forces of civilians, which are then reported as guerrillas killed in combat.…