Colombia Sentences Irishmen for Rebel Aid
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A Colombian court has sentenced three IRA-linked men to up to 17 1/2 years in prison for training leftist rebels in terrorist tactics in a guerrilla stronghold in southern Colombia, according to court documents released 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 man who prosecutors called one of the world's most significant drug kingpins was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison for money-laundering and smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States.
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela pardons and frees 27 Colombians convicted for plotting against him.
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The UN-backed war crimes court for Sierra Leone sentences three rebel leaders to long prison terms.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombiaâs main rebel group on Monday criticized a government proposal to swap jailed guerrillas for kidnapped politicians, soldiers and three American contractors, saying any deal should allow its freed comrades to return to the
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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was convicted Monday of helping hold three Americans hostage for years in jungle prison camps. He is the only person ever found responsible for their capture.
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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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Two members of Colombia's largest rebel group pleaded guilty Thursday to federal drug conspiracy charges, the first from the organization known as FARC to be convicted of narcotics trafficking in the United States, prosecutors said.
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Two men convicted of membership in the illegal paramilitary Irish Republican Army, one of them a prominent Sinn Fein party member, were given four-year jail sentences.
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A New York court sentences a leading Colombian drugs trafficker to 30 years in prison.
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The decision of a Colombian appeal court to sentence three Irishmen to 17 years in jail was "a surprise", the Irish foreign minister has conceded.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 5 -- President ÃÂlvaro Uribe has begun releasing dozens of Marxist rebels from jail in a bid to encourage the country's largest guerrilla group to liberate civilian hostages held in jungle camps, a risky move that has the support of Colombia's European allies.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - 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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Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general tells Reuters.
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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 Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three of their hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to secure a deal to free rebel captives.