Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace and Reintegration yesterday called on former AUC paramilitaries to denounce threats made against them by the FARC guerrillas and join the reintegration process. “Drug trafficking,…
The International Criminal Court has not launched any investigations against Colombia with regard to human rights abuses, but has been monitoring judicial proceedings throughout the country since 2005, Colombia’s ambassador…
The number of accusations of extrajudicial killings or ‘false positives’ has decreased throughout Colombia since October 2008, informed the Government in report to the UN Security Council. In a statement…
The U.S. Justice Department has promised to help Colombia’s Supreme Court in convincing extradited paramilitary leaders to testify and confess their crimes, Supreme Court president Augusto Ibañez said Tuesday. A…
The International Criminal Court will hear accusations of war crimes that have been committed in Colombia but have never seen justice, in a series of trials beginning on November 1st.…
A Colombian commission of jurists Thursday urged the Colombian State to admit the use of excessive force in the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice that had been occupied…
The defense lawyer for families of missing victims from the 1985 Palace of Justice siege will ask the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to validate a U.S. document which allegedly exposes…
Three agents of a special Colombian police force wiretapped telephone calls made by a Supreme Court magistrate in exchange for money, possibly paid by a high government official, Caracol TV reported…
Colombia’s Supreme Court decided to reopen the investigation into the alleged paramilitary ties of former Senate president Luis Humberto Gomez Gallo. The country’s Prosecutor General’s Office had previously closed the…