{"id":479404,"date":"2025-08-20T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/alvaro-uribe-receives-the-release-order-and-immediately-calls-for-a-first-public-act\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:02:56","slug":"alvaro-uribe-receives-the-release-order-and-immediately-calls-for-a-first-public-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/alvaro-uribe-receives-the-release-order-and-immediately-calls-for-a-first-public-act\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvaro Uribe receives the release order and immediately calls for a first public act"},"content":{"rendered":"Bogot\u00e1<\/strong>.- Former Colombian President \u00c1lvaro Uribe<\/strong> received this Wednesday the release order from the Justice while the sentence to twelve years in prison under house arrest to which he was sentenced is resolved in the second instance, and immediately convened a public act in the town of Sabaneta, near Medell\u00edn.\n\n“I have just received the release order. At 5 pm on the streets of Sabaneta. Then mass at Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora. I will dedicate every minute of my freedom to fight for the freedom of Colombia”<\/strong>, wrote Uribe, who was president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010, on his X account.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Diego Cadena, former lawyer of \u00c1lvaro Uribe, arrested<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe release order was issued by the 44th Criminal Court of Bogot\u00e1, the same court that on August 1 sentenced Uribe to twelve years in prison under house arrest after finding him guilty of the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal proceedings.\n\nThat order was taken in compliance with what was stated by the Criminal Decision Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogot\u00e1, which yesterday resolved to “protect the fundamental right to the individual liberty of citizen \u00c1lvaro Uribe V\u00e9lez” by ruling on a tutela action (amparo recourse) filed by his defense so that he can remain free while his trial concludes.\n\nThe court thus annulled the decision of Judge Sandra Heredia, who in the sentence had ordered his “immediate deprivation of liberty,” which Uribe, 73 years old, was serving in his country house in the town of Rionegro, near Medell\u00edn.\n\nOn Tuesday, after learning of the ruling in his favor, Uribe, founder and leader of the right-wing Democratic Center party, in the opposition, had already stated that he would dedicate every minute from now on “to the freedom of Colombia”.\n\nDespite the imposed sentence, Uribe has maintained from home an intense political activity related to the legislative and presidential elections of 2026, giving instructions to his party colleagues.\n\nThe process against Uribe, which has as its counterpart the left-wing senator Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, is in the hands of the Superior Court of Bogot\u00e1, which no later than October 16 must rule on the appeal filed by the defense against the first instance ruling.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bogot\u00e1.- Former Colombian President \u00c1lvaro Uribe received this Wednesday the release order from the Justice while the sentence to twelve years in prison under house arrest to which he was sentenced is resolved in the second instance, and immediately convened a public act in the town of Sabaneta, near Medell\u00edn. “I have just received the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[21854],"class_list":["post-479404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-alvaro-uribe"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Ik","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/KT2SAGGG3ZHF3DDVUZYD7M6AIA.avif","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/KT2SAGGG3ZHF3DDVUZYD7M6AIA.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}