“This week, the Tenth Specialized Criminal Court of Bogotá continued the public trial hearing against the former director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS, for its acronym in Spanish), José Miguel Narváez, for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Claudia Julieta Duque. During the hearing, the accused rejected his responsibility as the main person implicated in the crime and, in addition, re-victimized the journalist by questioning the veracity of the psychological torture against her.
In February of this year, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Attorney General's Office and the journalist Claudia Julieta Duque presented the closing arguments in the case. In these hearings, they pointed to Narváez as the main person responsible for implementing the strategy called 'Political Warfare,' which used military intelligence and counterintelligence to harm members of civil society identified as opponents of the Government in power."
