Ley 1820 de 2016 | Ley 1820 de 2016 — Colombia law | Esheria

Ley 1820 de 2016

This is the opening part of Law 1820 of 2016, titled “Consideraciones preliminares,” for a law about amnesty, pardon, special penal treatments, and other provisions.

Jurisdiction
Colombia
Instrument
Act or statute
Citation
Ley 1820 de 2016
Version
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Language
es
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amnesty amnesty and pardon compliance criminal justice data handling disarmament information gathering judicial procedure monitoring movement restrictions pardon participación ciudadana peace and conflict penal penalties and sanctions procesal public administration release from detention reporting resolución de विवाद scope of application special criminal treatment

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About this statute

This is the opening part of Law 1820 of 2016, titled “Consideraciones preliminares,” for a law about amnesty, pardon, special penal treatments, and other provisions. The law says Congress must handle required norm-making for the Final Agreement through the procedures in Act 01 of 2016, and the legislative process must include citizen participation spaces from Chapter IX of Law 5 of 1992. This article says the law’s purpose is to regulate amnesties and pardons for political crimes and related crimes, and to adopt special differentiated criminal treatments, especially for State agents covered by the article’s conditions. This article sets who the law applies to: certain people linked to the armed conflict, related amnestiable conduct, conduct connected to public disturbances or social protest, and, for rebel groups, only members of a group that signed a peace agreement with the Government. This article says the principles in the peace-justice creation agreement apply to amnesty, pardon, special criminal mechanisms, and related administrative, disciplinary, fiscal, and criminal-action matters, and must be applied promptly.

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