This emerges from a message from the court based in Costa Rica’s capital San José on Monday (local time). Accordingly, the court also ordered various reparation measures.
Bedoya, who now works for the newspaper “El Tiempo”, was kidnapped in 2000 as a young reporter waiting for an interview with imprisoned paramilitaries in the notorious “La Modelo” prison in Bogotá. She was brutally raped and tortured. Since then, she has fought for justice – and has now set a precedent in the decades-long armed conflict in Colombia.
“October 18, 2021 will go down in history as the day when a struggle that began with a crime against a single person led to the defense of the rights of thousands of women victims of sexual violence” Bedoya wrote on Twitter. Colombian President Iván Duque also spoke on the social network.
«The Colombian state rejects any physical and psychological aggression against women. Jineth Bedoya should never have been kidnapped and tortured, ”he wrote. The judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is being fully complied with. Colombia left a Bedoya hearing in March. The representative of the country accused the judges of prejudging the Colombian state.