US EditionColombia: High Army Officer Sentenced to the Heaviest Sentence by the Court of Justice for Peace · Global Voices
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For the first time, the Colombian Peace Court, born from the agreement reached with the FARC guerrillas in 2016, sentenced a former senior army officer, who is also at the heaviest penalty provided for in the agreement. The Special Court for Peace (JEP) convicted retired colonel Publio Hernan Mejia of crimes against humanity and war crimes and received 20 years in prison.
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) sentenced retired Colombian Army Colonel Hernán Mejía to 20 years in prison when he was found criminally responsible for 'false positives'.
THE COUNTRY reveals the details of the sentence in which transitional justice imposes the maximum possible sanction on the officer, who did not recognize his responsibility for the crimes
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace handed down the first conviction in an adverse trial against a senior army officer for extrajudicial executions. The ruling, related to crimes committed between 2002 and 2003 in the La Popa Battalion, can still be appealed.
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) sentenced retired Colonel Publio Hernán Mejía to 20 years in prison on Friday, finding him criminally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the internal armed conflict. The sentence holds him responsible for 72 murders and forced disappearances of civilians who were fraudulently presented as combatants killed in clashes. The ruling was issued by the First Instance …
A special court in Colombia, born of the peace agreement signed with the former FARC rebel group in 2016, has sentenced a former high-ranking military officer to 20 years in prison for 72 killings of civilians posing as rebels and disarmed rebels. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) found Colonel (retd.) Publio Hernán Mejia guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The victims included peasants, indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, a…
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