Colombia: Ex-President Uribe gets 12 years' house arrest
- 2025-08-02 03:41:55
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was found guilty of paying militia fighters to withdraw testimony linking him to right-wing paramilitary groups.
Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced Friday to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery in a case related to the country's prolonged civil war.
The conservative politician was found guilty this week of paying jailed paramilitaries to retract testimony which connects Uribe to right-wing militia groups.
In the decades since the outbreak of Colombia's civil war in the 1960s, paramilitary groups were responsible for mass killings, forced disappearances, and other atrocities.
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