Colombia Adopts New Law for Criminals to Deliver to Justice · Global Voices
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With the new regulations, members of illegal groups who surrender and collaborate with the authorities will receive reductions in their sentences and will be prosecuted by the common justice system. This buryes the peace policy promoted by the left-wing government of former President Gustavo Petro, who tried to negotiate - without success - the disarmament of illegal groups through dialogue. "The false total peace came to an end," he wrote in X …
The Colombian Congress passed a bill to prioritize the persecution of armed groups, an initiative of the government of the conservative Abelardo de la Espriella in place of the “total peace” promoted by his predecessor. The entry Colombian Congress approves law to prosecute armed groups was first published in El Diario
The Congress of the Republic definitively passed the Law of Submission to Justice, promoted by the Government of President Abelardo De La Espriella. The initiative obtained 57 votes in favor and 24 against in the Senate, while in the House of Representatives it received 95 positive and 10 negative votes. The bill remained [...] The Congressional office passed the Law of Submission to Justice and sent it to presidential sanction appeared first in…
With 95 votes in favour and 10 against, the House approved the bill and accepted the Senate text.
With 95 votes in favour and 10 against, the House of Representatives gave the final endorsement of the Submission Act, which sets out conditional criminal benefits for members of criminal organizations. The text, identical to the one approved in the Senate, does not require conciliation and now awaits the presidential signature.
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