Martín Elías: Armando Quintero is sentenced for a traffic accident - Barranquilla - Colombia

On the afternoon of this Thursday, EL TIEMPO learned that the Fourth Criminal Judge of the Sincelejo Circuit sentenced the driver to 32 months Armando Quintero Ponce for the death of vallenato singer-songwriter Martín Elías Díaz Acosta.

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The judge’s decision comes almost five years after the tragic traffic accident that occurred on the San Onofre (Sucre) – Lorica (Córdoba) road, at the height of the Aguas Negras sector.

The judge determined that the true cause of the death of the Vallenato artist corresponds to excessive speed

The judge indicated that said accident occurred due to excessive speed and established that Quintero Ponce must comply with the sentence at home.

“After hypotheses and hypotheses, the judge determined that the true cause of the death of the Vallenato artist corresponds to speeding. The truck was going 157 km/h, when on that road what corresponds is 50 km/h,” said the representative of the victim’s family, Óscar Sierra, to this medium.

Likewise, in the hearing that lasted until the afternoon, a fine was imposed on the person indicated by 26.66 minimum wages current monthly.

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Defender filed an appeal

After hearing the conviction, the defender of Armando Quintero, Raul Gutierrezfiled an appeal for details that will be released in the coming days.

“I file the appeal, which I will support within the following five days, as provided in article 179 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,” said the lawyer.

Deivis Lopez Ortega
Correspondent of EL TIEMPO Barranquilla
On twitter: @dejholopez
Write me at deilop@eltiempo.com

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Antioquia: Sofía Cadavid's father sentenced to 35 years in prison - Medellín - Colombia

Diego Cadavid, the father of the girl Sofía Cadavid, who was murdered on December 17, 2020 in Rionegro, in Eastern Antioquia, was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

A judge issued the conviction for aggravated homicide, in a case that shocked the country, as the 18-month-old girl died violently.

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The main suspect, after the investigations, was the father, and that is why a process was started. On December 18, one day after the crime and when Cadavid was captured, Francisco Barbosa himself, Attorney General of the Nation, stated that he would be charged with the crime of aggravated femicide.

“We are going to charge him with the crime of aggravated femicide before a judge of guarantees. We are not going to allow acts of impunity in this country,” were Barbosa’s words at the time.

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Capture of the girl’s father days after the crime.

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Courtesy Antioquia Police

As this newspaper had already reported, Diego Armando Cadavid had taken her from his home in Rionegro (Eastern Antioquia) at 12 noon and had arranged to return her at six in the afternoon, as confirmed by the authorities.

Upon reporting her as missing, the Army, Firefighters, Police, residents of the sector and officials from the Mayor’s Office of Rionegro undertook the search for the 18-month-old girl.

“Around 2:24 in the morning, the girl Sofia was found lifeless, with signs of violence and wounded with a sharp weapon. Given this, and after the evidence collected by the judicial authorities, an arrest warrant was issued against the victim’s father and -as I mentioned- that arrest warrant has been confirmed and the alleged aggressor of the girl Sofía has been captured. “, detailed at that time Rodrigo Hernández Alzate, mayor of Rionegro.

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On the judge’s ruling, the local president celebrated that justice has been done.

“I am pleased that Justice condemns the murderer of the girl Sofía Cadavid for aggravated homicide, in December 2020, in a fact that tore us as rionegreros and society. In Rionegro all life is sacred and even more so those of our children, to whom we should only give love, example and protection, “he said.

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Husband Says Iran Sentenced Activist Wife to Prison, Lashes

DUBAI, UAE — 

Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to more than eight years prison, according to her husband.

Paris-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted on Sunday that his wife, Narges Mohammadi, was tried in five minutes and sentenced to prison and 70 lashes. He has said she is prohibited from communicating and has no access to lawyers. Last week, she was sent to Gharchak prison near Tehran.

Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended memorial for a victim of violent 2019 protests. Rahmani said in December his wife stood accused of “spying for Saudi Arabia.”

Mohammadi has a long history of imprisonment, harsh sentences and international calls for reviews of her case.

In May, the European Union called on Iran to reconsider her sentence of 30 months in prison and 80 lashes on charges of protesting the killing of protesters during the country’s 2019 unrest.

A spokesperson for the bloc urged Iran to look into Mohammadi’s case under “applicable international human rights law and taking into account her deteriorating health condition.” Mohammadi confirmed her sentence at the time in an Instagram post, saying she does not “accept any of these sentences.”

In the post, Mohammadi said one of the charges against her is having a party and dancing in jail.

She was released from jail in October 2020, after serving eight and a half years in prison, after her initial, 10-year sentence was commuted. In that case, she was sentenced in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on charges including planning crimes to harm the security of Iran, spreading propaganda against the government and forming and managing an illegal group.

Before imprisonment, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

Mohammadi has been close to Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who founded the center. Ebadi left Iran after the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, which touched off unprecedented protests and harsh crackdowns by authorities.

In 2018, Mohammadi, an engineer, was awarded the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize.