BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian special court created under the terms of a 2016 peace deal on Tuesday sentenced seven former leaders from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels to the maximum of eight years of reparations work for their role in kidnappings for ransom.
The sentences, for the remaining members of the FARC's secretariat, are the first individual punishments announced by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), which is trying leaders from both the FARC and the military for their part in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
