Colombia - What are Colombia's judicial officials playing at?

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The Colombian judicial system is doing journalist Jineth Bedoya great harm by its chaotic mishandling of the case against former paramilitary Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco, who confessed in 2011 to participating in her abduction and torture in May 2000 and later retracted. Judicial officials have taken three contradictory decisions in the case in the past four days. On 2 June, a prosecutor ordered his release. The next day, the head of the government's human rights unit said the decision was not (...)

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