[Peace-discuss] Panama Rejects Colombian Ex Intelligence Chief Asylum Request

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

Panama Rejects Colombian Ex Intelligence Chief Asylum Request

Description: Maria del Pilar Hurtado 

Maria del Pilar Hurtado | Photo: EFE

Published 13 January 2015 (12 hours 51 minutes ago) 

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Maria del Pilar Hurtado is a fugitive of Colombian justice after ordering
illegal wiretappings of journalists, magistrates, congress people, and human
rights activists, under the government of Alvaro Uribe.

The National Office of Refugees of Panama refused to grant asylum to the
Colombian former chief of intelligence, which will now enable authorities to
deport her immediately from Panama if captured.

Last year Maria del Pilar Hurtado, leader of the Administrative Department
of Security (DAS) in Colombia, lost the asylum status she was granted in the
Central American country. She is a fugitive from the Colombian justice for
having ordered illegal wiretappings of journalists, magistrates, congress
people, and human rights activists, under the government of Alvaro Uribe.

Panamanian authorities are not sure of Hurtado's current location since she
may have fled to Costa Rica, and Interpol has put out an international
arrest warrant for her.

In 2010, former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelly granted Hurtado
refugee status, but four years later the Supreme Court of Justice declared
the decision unconstitutional. Then Martinelly's successor Juan Carlos
Varela informed Colombia that his government had rejected Hurtado's second
request for asylum, in accordance with national and international
conventions.  

 

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