Analysis of the extradition process for Colombians. An insight into the DECOPEX Foundation

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present an analytical approach on the processing of the extradition of Colombians requested by international courts of justice taking as a reference the personal experience in the Foundation for the Defense of Colombians Orders in Extradition (DECOPEX). This Non-Governmental Organization was a space where converged the relatives of the persons arrested with extradition request from a foreign State mainly and that they were being held in the Pavilion Seven of the Maximum Security Prison of Combita. The primary purposes of DECOPEX were focused on four strategic areas. The defense of the fundamental rights of the inmates and their families; the development of a legal strategy in the national and international level; the realization of lobbying government bodies with the aim of regulating the legal procedure of extradition and the social function before the problem of some people who were wrongfully.

Keywords

• extradición
• trámite jurídico
• cooperación internacional
• Fundación DECOPEX