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The Prosecutor’s Office reported yesterday that it rejected the request for the release of former President Álvaro Uribe, arguing that the decision corresponds to a judge to control guarantees in the new Accusatory Penal System.
“The prosecutor in charge of the investigation rejected the request for freedom presented by the defense (…) because this type of petitions should only be known and decided in preliminary hearings by a judge of control of guarantees in accordance with the provisions of the Law 906 of 2004, which designed the Accusatory Criminal System in Colombia, ”the document reads.
In addition, a judge in Montería denied a habeas corpus filed by a citizen for the former senator to regain his freedom.
Meanwhile, Senator Iván Cepeda, victim in the case, announced yesterday a series of complaints to the UN, the IACHR, the Attorney General’s Office and the Accusations Commission, for what he considers to have been “undue pressure” against the Supreme Court and ” incitement to violence ”from“ a gigantic campaign ”headed, assures, by the ex-president, the Democratic Center, the Government and the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa.
He announced that he will denounce the prosecutor before Congress because he did not suspend the proceedings of the case despite having been challenged in the process.
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