March 20, 1997
Case: Gerardo Bedoya Borrero
Op-ed page editor of the newspaper El País, Cali, Valle del Cauca. He was also director of the Colombian Studies Center of the National Conservative Party.
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He was heading to his vehicle after a visit at an apartment complex when an individual approached him and shot him five times.
Sentences reversed and acquittals: (+)
Released / Sentence commuted: (+)
Jailed awaiting trial: (+)
Edgar José Astaiza, the only person arrested as alleged perpetrator named by the investigators from the Public Proesecutor’s Office Tecdnical Investigations Corps, was released.
Suspects not charged: (+)
On September 23, 1999 the case was submitted by the IAPA to the IACHR.
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