This case is one of the first serious episodes of collective detention – forced disappearance in Colombia. After more than 10 years of opening the investigation and more than 39 years since the forced disappearance of the young workers and students of the National and District Universities...
This week the trial resumed for the homicide of brothers Humberto Escobar Mercado, Preliciano Marcado García and Eusebio Osorio Mercado, committed in the El Trébol farm, corregimiento of La Guaripa, municipality of Sucre, department of Sucre, on January 25, 2018, by armed men working for cattle...
From the Strategic Litigation Area, we reject the appointment of Brigadier General (R) Alejandro Navas Ramos as Governor in charge in the department of Arauca, a situation that directly affects the rights to truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition of the victims of State...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia. On the last November 24, 2021 were commemorated the five years of the signing of the renegociated peace agreement with the FARC with the visit of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and an event at the headquarters of the Special Jurisdiction...
November 27, 2021. The Colombian State, through the Presidential Council for Human Rights and International Affairs, was to carry out today a public presentation of the documentary: “Manuel Cepeda: An Artist in Politics”, directed by the master Lisandro Duque Naranjo, whose production...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia On October 19, 2019, the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes, MOVICE, published on its Twitter account the image of a mural in which it pointed out the number of “false positives” committed between the years 2000 to 2010,...
Youth leaders participating in the social mobilizations carried out in the department of Boyacá during the #ParoNacional2021 are arrested. Colombia, November 22, 2021. In the morning hours, multiple raids and execution of arrest warrants were carried out for several young leaders and participants...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia. Last week, the Constitutional Court issued a decision in the case against Álvaro Uribe for alleged procedural fraud and witness bribery, which, being technical, is a big one. What happened and why is it important? As a reminder to readers, the...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia. Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Palace of Justice Holocaust, which shook Colombia and the world. We all saw the images of the people who left the building alive, guarded by the military, bound for the Casa del Florero, of which more than a...
Colombia has accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court since 2002, in relation to crimes against Humanity, and since 2009 in relation to war crimes. Since 2004, the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court has had Colombia under preliminary examination. Since...
More than 17 years have passed since the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Colombia, the scene of crimes against humanity (1) that have occurred since November 1, 2002, and war crimes (2) that have occurred since November 2009, in the context of a...
Photo: Colombia Informa Prosecutor’s office and victims’ representatives consider that the conviction should have been for violent carnal access. On July 30, 2021, the Municipal Judge of Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, read the sentence against the members of the National Army Juan Camilo...