Ms. Bedoya further extended the complaint 149 and on November 26, 2011, Ms. Bedoya submitted a new sworn statement. 150 On April 30, 2012, Ms. Bedoya once again gave a sworn statement before the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation. 151 69. With regard to the persons prosecuted for the facts committed against Ms. Bedoya on May 25, 2000, the information that is outlined below is what is available. c.1 Criminal proceedings against Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco 70. In the framework of the criminal procedure regarding the crimes committed against Ms. Bedoya on May 25, 2000, Mr. Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco, alias “JJ or John Jairo Restrepo,” demobilized from the Centauros Bloc of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and held in the “La Picota” prison (Bogotá), acknowledged having been the person who intercepted and kidnapped Ms. Bedoya on the orders of commanders of the Centauros Bloc. 152 On September 13, 2011, the account given by Mr. Cárdenas on September 6, 2011 before the justice and peace jurisdiction, in which he acknowledged his participation in Ms. Bedoya’s kidnapping on May 25, 2000 was forwarded to the Office of the Attorney General. 153 Following a series of inquiries, on February 22, 2013, formal charges were filed against Mr. Cárdenas as part of a plea bargain in which he plead guilty to simple kidnapping with circumstances of aggravation and torture of a protected person. 154 71. On February 24, 2016, the Fifth Criminal Judge of the Bogotá Specialized Circuit convicted Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco and sentenced him to 11 years and 5 months in prison, to a fine of ninety legal monthly minimum wages in force at the time of the events, as well as to the civil penalty of disqualification from the exercise of public rights and functions for a period equal to restriction on liberty, for the crimes, as co-perpetrator, of simple kidnapping with aggravating circumstances and "torture of a protected person," to the detriment of the victim Jineth Bedoya Lima. The judge also classified the facts suffered by Ms. Bedoya as a crime against humanity. 155 72. Likewise, on May 6, 2019, the Fifth Criminal Court of the Bogotá Specialized Circuit convicted Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco and sentenced him to 30 years in prison, along with the civil penalty of disqualification from the exercise of public rights and functions for 20 years, for the crime of "aggravated violent rape of a protected person," to the detriment of the victim Jineth Bedoya Lima. 156 On October 28, 2019, the Criminal Decision Chamber of the Superior Court of the Judicial District of Bogotá D.C. agreed to modify the sentence by convicting Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco and sentencing him to 30 years in prison as co-perpetrator of the "crime of aggravated violent rape." 157 149 Cf. Expansion of complaint of Jineth Bedoya Lima, August 11, 2010 (evidence file, folio 638). 150 Cf. Sworn statement of Jineth Bedoya Lima, November 26, 2011 (evidence file, folios 4414 to 44124). 151 Cf. Sworn statement of Jineth Bedoya Lima, April 30, 2012 (evidence file, folio 801). 152 Cf. Resolution of Specialized Prosecutor 49 UNDH-DIH, of September 2, 2011 (evidence file, folio 777). Cf. Statement made by Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco, of September 6, 2011, forwarded by the Chief Prosecutor of the National Unit of Public Prosecutions for Justice and Peace to the Head of the National Unit for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (evidence file, folio 782). 153 154 Cf. Formal charges for plea bargain of February 22, 2013 for defendant Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco (evidence file, folios 833 to 902), and Fifth Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Bogotá, Judgment of February 24, 2016 (evidence file, folio 24046). 155 Cf. Fifth Criminal Court of the Bogotá Specialized Circuit, Judgment of February 24, 2016 (evidence file, folios 24070 to 24071). 156 Cf. Fifth Criminal Court of the Bogotá Specialized Circuit, Judgment of May 6, 2019 (evidence file, folio 24225). Cf. Superior Court of the Judicial District of Bogotá D.C., Criminal Decision Chamber, Judgment of October 28, 2019 (evidence file, folio 24274). 157 28

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