Rodríguez Vera y otros (Palacio de Justicia)
Case- Summary
The petition refers to facts that occurred during the siege and subsequent takeover of the Justice Palace, headquarters of the Supreme Court and the State Council in Bogotá, Colombia. This took place on November 6th and 7th in 1985.
On November 6th a guerilla command of Group M-19 sieged the Justice Palace. The high command of the Armed Forces of Colombia decided to retake it through a military operation and intelligence that was described as disproportionate and excessive by domestic courts and the “Truth Commission on the Acts of the Palace of Justice”, established by the Supreme Court.
The operation lasted 27 hours and resulted in the death of approximately 100 people, including judges of the Supreme Court and State Council. Many of those who survived were tortured and in some cases disappeared or executed. Among these people are the victims in this case.
The Inter-American Court analyzed the state responsibility in the light of international obligations in relation to serious crime of torture, forced disappearance, and execution, as well as the obligation to investigate these facts within a civil jurisdiction and by a competent judge, not a military jurisdiction.
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Presentation to the IACommission
- Dec 1, 1990
- Submission to the IACourt
- Feb 9, 2012
- IACommission / Merits report: rights violated
ACHR IACFDP IACPPT 7, 5, 4, 3, 1.1 I.a, XI 7, 5, 1.1 8.1, 25.1, 1.1 1, 6, 8 8.1, 25.1, 1.1 I.b 5.1, 1.1
- IACourt / Judgment: rights violated
ACHR IACFDP IACPPT 7, 5.1, 5.2, 4.1, 3, 1.1 I.a 4, 1.1 7, 5.1, 5.2, 4.1, 3, 1.1 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 1.1 7.1, 7.2, 1.1 5.1, 5.2, 11.1, 11.2, 1.1 5.1, 5.2, 1.1 8.1, 25.1, 1.1 I.a 1, 6, 8 4.1, 5.1, 1.1 5.1, 5.2, 1.1
- IACourt / Judgment: rights non-violated
ACHR IACFDP 11, 12 III, XI
- Descriptors
- Extrajudicial execution
- Forced disappearance
- Military jurisdiction
- Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- Court documents
- Rodríguez Vera et al. Judgment. November 14, 2014
- Rodríguez Vera et al. Order of the IACourt. May 30, 2013
- Rodríguez Vera y otros / Palacio de Justicia. Hearing. November 12, 2013
- Rodríguez Vera y otros / Palacio de Justicia. Hearing. November 12, 2013
- Rodríguez Vera y otros / Palacio de Justicia. Hearing. November 13, 2013
- Rodríguez Vera y otros. Order of the IACourt. February 10, 2017
- Rodríguez Vera y otros. Order of the President of the IACourt. October 16, 2013
- Documentos de la comisión
- Geolocalización de los hechos
- Geolocalización de los hechos (linked Place of the events)
- Rodríguez Vera y otros (Palacio de Justicia)