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The Government team of the Cádiz City Council (Spain) decided to symbolically withdraw former President Álvaro Uribe the Cortes de la Libertad Award with which he awarded him in 2009.
In a press release, the Cádiz City Council explains that the local government thus assumes “as its own” the proposal that more than 100 national and international organizations from the city sent him to request the withdrawal of this recognition.
(See also: Iván Cepeda announces new appeals in the middle of the process against Uribe)
The organizations, among which are the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía (Apdha), the Óscar Romero Committee, trade unions and Colombian associations, pointed out that in 2009 Uribe was a person who “had shown little respect for freedoms and was responsible for so many human rights violations in your country. ”
The Cádiz City Council recalls that the former Colombian president is currently under house arrest for alleged procedural fraud and bribery of witnesses, and pending other causes. On August 4, the Supreme Court of Colombia issued the measure against Uribe and two weeks later, the former president resigned his seat in the Senate, and lost jurisdiction, so his process passed from the Court to the Attorney General’s Office.
(Read also: Why did former prosecutor Montealegre appear in a hearing against Uribe?)
Organizations recalled in his request for Uribe’s “boycott” of the peace process in Colombia, which the former president Juan Manuel Santos promoted together with the FARC, guerilla that after leaving the arms became political party.
“For all these reasons, the symbolic withdrawal of the honor and recognition that the Cortes de Cádiz Freedom Award brings to the former president of Colombia Álvaro has been agreed
Uribe and the elimination of his name where he appears as awarded or honored by this distinction “, points out the City Council.
The legal situation of the former president will begin to be defined on September 22 at a hearing in which it will be decided whether to keep him under house arrest or release him while the process is resolved.
(Be sure to read: In defense of Á. Uribe does not sound like they link his case with that of Cadena)
EFE
