Colombia’s Constitutional Court rejected the request by former President Alvaro Uribe to revoke his indictment on fraud and bribery charges. The decision is a major blow for Uribe, who has…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court sank President Ivan Duque’s decree allowing Congress to work from home, putting legislation passed over the past months at risk. The court sank the decree issued in…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court allowed politicians convicted by the Supreme Court without appeal after 2013 to retroactively claim this right. The sentence followed a writ by former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe…
Colombia’s former constitutional court president isn’t just any criminal; he was sentenced over land theft while already in prison for corruption. Former magistrate Jorge Pretelt may not have made it…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court is studying the legalization of abortion after an anti-abortion activist filed a petition for a blanket ban. Reports about magistrate Alejandro Linares’ proposal to legalize abortion during…
Almost three out of 10 of the almost 5,833 criminal complaints filed against women who illegally had an abortion in Colombia since 1998 involved rape victims, according to newspaper El…
Colombia’s constitutional court on Friday ordered the country’s justice ministry, the prosecution and health experts to justify why abortion would be a crime. The top court summoned the opinions of…
A widely rejected tax reform that was approved by Colombia’s Congress in December may become President Ivan Duque’s latest humiliation in court. Several senators and jurists have announced they will…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced a former Constitutional Court president to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday for allegedly asking a $150,000 (COP500 million) bribe from an oil…