FARC celebrates court order to release "Jesus Santrich," Colombia's ruling party expresses "horror"
by Jake Kincaid May 15, 2019
Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrillas on Wednesday celebrated a decision by the war crimes tribunal to release former guerrilla leader “Jesus Santrich” while the party of President Ivan Duque rejected the decision.
Via a phone call from his cell in La Picota prison in Bogota, Santrich celebrated the decision by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), claiming that the ruling confirms his claim that the drug trafficking charge made by US authorities was a hoax.
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“This places a light of hope, gives a chance to continue to open the way for the implementation of the Havana Agreement,” said Santrich, whose arrest last year plunged the peace process in crisis.
The FARC’s former military chief and current party leader, Rodrigo Londoño, told Channel 1 news that he hopes that Santrich will assume the congressional seat he was forced to abandon after his arrest, adding that his release was the only reasonable legal decision the tribunal could have taken.
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