Overview

• Colombia’s Tribunal Superior de Bogotá revoked the house‑arrest order, finding no objective evidence of flight risk and criticizing the detention rationale as “vague, indeterminate and imprecise.”
• Uribe was convicted on August 1 of fraud in judicial proceedings and witness bribery, receiving 12 years of house arrest, a fine of roughly COP 3,400 million and an office ban of more than eight years.
• Defense attorneys had filed an amparo and appealed the verdict, arguing violations of presumption of innocence, liberty and due process; the second‑instance decision is due by mid‑October.
• Uribe thanked supporters and posted that he would devote his freedom to Colombia, as President Gustavo Petro repudiated the court’s decision and Senator Iván Cepeda said he respected it but did not agree.
• A judges’ rights group asked the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights for precautionary protection for Judge Sandra Heredia after death threats, intensifying concerns over judicial security.