Saturday 08 November
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Former Panama Officials
to Court
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Will Slow Down
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Former Panama Officials
to Court
Panama - Former
Panamanian officials
will appear before a
court Friday for the
crime of abuse of
authority in the case of
the release of terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles in
August 2004, official
sources reported.
The Justice Supreme
Court (CSJ) stated that
former Government
Minister Arnulfo
Escalona, former Police
director Carlos Bares,
and former Migration
assistant director
Javier Tapia are
involved in the process.
Posada Carriles and his
accomplices Gaspar
Jimenez, Guillermo Novo
and Pedro Remon, were
detained in Panama in
November 2000 during the
celebration of the10th
Ibero-American Summit,
when conspiring to
assassinate Cuban
President Fidel Castro
at a popular act.
Judge Jose Ho sentenced
Posada Carriles and
Jimenez to eight years
of imprisonment in 2002,
for threatening
collective security and
falsification of
documents, and the other
two terrorists to seven,
for the first crime.
However, ex President
Mireya Moscoso pardoned
the terrorists a few
days before concluding
her mandate.
In mid 2008, the CSJ
declared
unconstitutional the
measures in favor of
Posada Carriles and his
accomplices.
On that occasion, that
judiciary body
considered the decision
with a retroactive
nature, so the processes
of those benefited
should return to the
situation they were in
August 2004.
A group of lawyers
representing trade
unions, indigenous
organizations and
student movements
presented the
extradition request
against those terrorists
early July at the Fifth
Penal Court of Panama. |
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