Cutbacks introduced by Colombia’s president Ivan Duque are seriously threatening the functionality of the country’s war crimes tribunal, which seeks to bring justice to 8.5 million conflict victims. The hard-right…
Colombia’s constitutional court ordered the prosecution to use seized FARC assets for nothing but the compensation for victims of the demobilized guerrilla group. The decision is a major victory for victims…
President Ivan Duque’s refusal to sign off on Colombia’s war crimes tribunal could end up in a major humiliation as the majority of Congress appears poised to dismiss his objections. The…
The investigations chief of Colombia’s war crimes tribunal has requested the immediate resignation of 40 prosecutors following a corruption scandal earlier this month. Giovanni Alvarez, Director of the Investigations Unit…
The president of Colombia’s war crimes tribunal asked controversial former president Alvaro Uribe to end his campaign of “insults, disinformation and distortion” against the Special Peace Juristiction (JEP). Uribe, whose…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has criticized Colombia’s government for its failure to adopt a law that defines the powers of a war crimes tribunal. The IACHR said…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court said Wednesday that it cannot block President Ivan Duque’s decision to return a law that defines the powers of the country’s war crimes tribunal to Congress. In…
“Romaña,” the former FARC commander who has been called the “kidnapping czar” of the demobilized guerrilla group, failed to appear before the war crimes tribunal on Wednesday. The attorney of…
Former FARC commander “El Paisa” failed to appear at his first hearing before Colombia’s war crimes tribunal almost a year after he went underground. Hernan Dario Velasquez, a.k.a. “El Paisa,”…