{"id":12491,"date":"2016-01-26T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elturbion.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:45:46","slug":"pardoned-political-prisoners-will-work-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned political prisoners will work for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152791877\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>January 26th, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 21st, 16 of the 30 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia &#8211; People\u2019s Army (FARC-EP) were released in the peace negotiations between the guerrillas and the national government, the members having been pardoned last December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the government, these individuals have been released by virtue of the crimes for which they were condemned being political in nature, on charges of rebellion. Additionally, they were part of a group of more than 80 political prisoners whose release urgently demanded \u00a0the the FARC-EP on grounds of serious illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Long Live the Butterflies Coalition (La Coalici\u00f3n Larga Vida a las Mariposas), which brings together different organizations that work with political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, the group of released prisoners is made up of 9 men and 7 women. \u00a0Of these persons, 4 will leave for Havana (Cuba) to join the negotiating team of the FARC-EP: Carlos Antonio Ochoa, Sandra Patricia Isaza, Elky Javier Caballero Rodr\u00edguez and Gloria \u00c1lvarez Mestizo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of those released, Ochoa recognized President Juan Manuel Santos for his \u201cact of pardon\u201d and emphasized that \u201cthis voluntary gesture is important\u201d, indicating the necessity of the government to continue the release of political prisoners of the guerrillas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Isaza stressed that \u201cit is necessary that the country recognize the difficult situation that the political prisoners in Colombia are enduring\u201d and indicated that, following his release, they will work \u201cto socialize the agreements reached in Havana\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is estimated that in Colombia there are more that 9,000 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, which includes not only detained combatants of armed insurgent organizations but also political opponents, social leaders and persons detained by authorities in the framework of the protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">* Traducido por: Liesl Drew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 21st, 16 members of the FARC were released in the peace negotiations between the guerrillas and the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[756,759,1487,1745,2137,2754,2809,2810,2927],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nacion","tag-colombia","tag-colombian-goverment","tag-farc","tag-havana","tag-liberations","tag-pardon","tag-peace","tag-peace-talks","tag-political-prisoners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elturbion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}