Colombia’s Ketchup-Bottle-Case - What Former President Álvaro Uribe’s Conviction for Witness Tampering Means for Other Cases
Boesten, Jan
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It may well be Colombian literary culture shining through when the presiding judge of the case against former President Álvaro Uribe cited the French aristocrat: “As Montesquieu rightly said, the law must be like death, which spares no one”. The verdict of 12 years in prison has been 14 years in the making. The most important implication of this case is neither the verdict itself, nor the length of the sentence – it is its nature as a “Ketchup-Bottle-Case”: the opening for more than 100 cases in the system that include crimes against humanity carrying life-in-prison sentences.
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Boesten, Jan
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Uribe Vélez Álvaro | 1952– | Politiker; Jurist
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