La extraterritorialidad de la ley penal: el principio de justicia universal, su aplicación en Colombia

Currently considered the crimes against humanity, among others, applying the principle of criminal justice jurisdiction or universal, thereby eventually this kind of crime can be investigated and tried under the Statute of the International Criminal Court or in the exercise of that same principle ex...

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Main Author: Torres Vásquez, Henry
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Militar Nueva Granada 2013
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4414794
Source:Revista Prolegómenos. Derechos y Valores de la Facultad de Derecho, ISSN 0121-182X, Vol. 26, Nº. 31, 2013, pags. 99-115
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Summary: Currently considered the crimes against humanity, among others, applying the principle of criminal justice jurisdiction or universal, thereby eventually this kind of crime can be investigated and tried under the Statute of the International Criminal Court or in the exercise of that same principle exercised by any country. Countries like Spain, UK, Belgium, etc.., have applied universal jurisdiction in media cases of former Argentine military or the famous case of Augusto Pinochet. This paper makes a brief analysis of the offenses that achieve standards that are protective of transgressing universal legal goods. Our primary goal is to explain this principle in order to avoid impunity in crimes of international nature. For this reason it is clarified in the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction applied in Spain, in that perspective we analyze recent crimes against humanity that occurred in Colombia that are subsumed under the category of crimes that could be brought to universal jurisdiction in that sense are studied the characteristics of the extraterritoriality of Colombian criminal law at the international level.