Colombia’s prosecution reportedly wants to end the justice system that has revealed the involvement of politicians, military commanders and businessmen in paramilitary war crimes. According to newspaper El Espectador, multiple…
Salvatore Mancuso, the former paramilitary leader who led the demobilization of paramilitary group AUC, will not have to go to prison if he returns to Colombia in March next year.…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal must learn from the failures of the disappointing transitional justice system with the now-demobilized AUC paramilitaries, according to a study. The Toledo International Center for Peace…
Colombia’s specially established traditional justice court (JEP) on Monday opened proceedings on the case of extrajudicial killings carried out by the armed forces, which are often referred to as “false…
One of the most feared commanders of the now-demobilized FARC rebels has been released nine years after she surrendered to authorities. A Medellin court ordered the conditional release of Elda…
Colombian authorities arrested a Bogota public prosecutor Saturday on suspicion of illegally benefiting paramilitary leaders under the Justice and Peace demobilization program. According to the investigations, prosecutor Hilda Jeaneth Niño…
No more than 47 of approximately 30,000 paramilitaries who demobilized more than a decade ago have since been convicted of war crimes, reported Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo Thursday. The “Justice…
Two former paramilitary leaders on the verge of being released from Colombian prisons are now wanted for extradition to the US on charges of drug trafficking, local media reported Tuesday.
Colombia has asked the United States to send back a famous drug lord recently released from US prison, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Justice.