Overview

• The Tribunal Superior de Bogotá ordered Uribe’s immediate release while it reviews his appeal of a first-instance guilty verdict.
• The court faulted Judge Sandra Heredia’s detention rationale as vague and imprecise and found no objective indicators of flight risk.
• Uribe was convicted on August 1 of fraud in judicial proceedings and witness bribery and was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, a fine of more than 3.4 billion pesos and over eight years of ineligibility for public office.
• The second-instance review remains pending with a decision deadline cited as October 16, according to reporting on the tribunal’s timetable.
• A judicial-rights NGO asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to grant protective measures for Judge Heredia after reported death threats.