Colombia re-arrests suspected rapist of journalist
Colombia re-arrests suspected rapist of journalist
Last Updated: Sunday, June 7, 2015 - 11:48
Bogota: The Colombian Attorney General`s Office has re-arrested former paramilitary Alejandro Cardenas Orozco, alias "JJ," one of the suspected rapists of a journalist Jineth Bedoya 15 years ago. His release was ordered by a prosecutor earlier this week in a decision harshly criticised inside the country and internationally, media reported.
The ex-paramilitary personnel was re-arrested on Friday night at a house in the densely populated Kennedy sector of southwest Bogota by agents of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the AG`s office, and was immediately taken to the unit`s lockup, according to El Tiempo, the newspaper where Bedoya works.
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The decision to re-arrest "JJ" was taken last Thursday by Colombia`s Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre, after which a technical committee set about analysing the controversial decision of the prosecutor who ordered Cardenas`s release.
"All kinds of irregularities were observed by that committee", for which reason the AG`s office "reactivated the preventive detention and arrest warrant" against Cardenas, an ex-paramilitary of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), the CTI said at the time.
Bedoya was kidnapped on May 25, 2000, at the entrance to Bogota`s La Modelo prison, where she had arrived to conduct an interview with a senior paramilitary member. She was subsequently physically and psychologically tortured and raped by her captors, in what was ruled a crime against humanity.
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