Colombia Sentences Irishmen for Rebel Aid
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A court on Thursday convicted three IRA-linked men of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics and sentenced them to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.
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Colombian state prosecutors on Monday ordered the arrest of three soldiers in connection with the killing of union officials accused of being leftist rebels last month, the state prosecution office said.
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Four Colombian soldiers were sentenced to 40 years each for murdering union officials in 2004, a decision the government said reflects its commitment to labor rights as it tries to clinch a U.S. free trade deal.
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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
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Colombia says it will pardon 23 members of the left-wing Farc guerrilla group, to encourage a reciprocal move.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday said itwould pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillasto free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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THREE Irishmen acquitted by a Colombian judge of training Marxist guerrillas in IRA-style terrorist warfare were found guilty on appeal and sentenced to up to 17Â½ years imprisonment yesterday.
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A Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday and labeled a terrorist for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
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The Irish government has expressed its astonishment at a Colombian courtâs conviction and sentencing of three Irishmen to 17-year prison sentences for training Colombian rebels.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- The Colombian government, the recipient of billions of dollars in US aid to fight drugs and a leftist insurgency, is under siege as evidence mounts of links between right-wing death squads and dozens of officials loyal to President &#xC1;lvaro Uribe.
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Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general says.
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Two members of Northern Ireland's IRA-linked Sinn Fein party arrived in Colombia on Saturday to meet lawyers for three Irishmen convicted of training Marxist rebels in terrorist tactics.
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Colombia's top court authorises the extradition of two paramilitary leaders and a rebel chief to the US.
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A Colombian court's decision to sentence three Irishmen to 17 years in jail was a surprise, the Irish Government says.
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A court has sentenced three former rebels to death for killing dozens of people while rebel factions jockeyed for power more than a decade ago, a government spokesman said Thursday.
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The three Irish men being held by the Colombian government and accused of aiding the FARC rebels in that country have reportedly fled Colombia after being sentenced to 17 and a half years
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A Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003.