Uribe denies the charges and has appealed the conviction to the Superior Tribunal in Bogota, the country’s capital. The court ...

Meanwhile, Uribe’s political base launched a two-pronged media and political campaign. On one hand, they accused Judge Heredia — and the Colombian judiciary in general — of being part of a lawfare ...

On August 1, former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe was sentenced to twelve years of house arrest, making history as the ...

A Colombia appeals court has ordered the release of former President Alvro Uribe from house arrest as he challenges his ...

The Superior Court of Bogota has ordered the release of former president Alvaro Uribe, who is appealing his conviction for ...

Earlier this month, Alvaro Uribe was found guilty of bribing militia fighters to withdraw testimony linking him to right-wing ...

Bogota's superior court has overturned a judge's order that former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe be held on house arrest ...

A Bogotá court on Tuesday lifted the house arrest of former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe while an appeal against a ...

Álvaro Uribe has become the first former Colombian president to be convicted of a crime. A court in Bogotá found the 73-year-old, who was president from 2002 to 2010, guilty of witness-tampering and a ...

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez was sentenced Friday to 12 years of house arrest for bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud.

Uribe was placed on house arrest and sentenced to 12 years in a long-running case about his connections to former right-wing ...

The sentence, which Uribe said will be appealed, followed a nearly six-month trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that he attempted to influence witnesses who accused the law-and-order leader ...