[NYTr] Panama Will Try Those Who Freed Posada
 
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:07:06 -0500 (CDT)


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Panama Will Try Those Who Freed Posada

Panama, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Three Panamanian former top officials of
President Mireya Moscoso's government will be tried in court for
breaking the law in releasing international terrorist of Cuban origin
Luis Posada Carriles, informed judicial sources Wednesday.

Following a preliminary hearing yesterday, Judge Marlene Morais, head
of Panama's Twelfth Penal Circuit Court, announced the opening of a
trial at which the accused will face charges for abuse of authority.

The three officials include ex Minister of Government and Justice
Arnulfo Escalona, ex National Police Director Carlos Bares and ex
assistant director of Migration Javier Tapia, who were called for the
January 18,2008 hearing.

Posada Carriles, Gaspar Jimenez, Pedro Remon and Guillermo Novo were
serving sentences for plotting the assassination of Cuban President
Fidel Castro at a public act during the 10th Latin American Summit,
held in November 2000 in Panama City.

Despite the serious charges and his status as fugitive from a prison in
Venezuela, where he was tried for blowing-up a Cubana Airline airplane
in which 73 passengers died, Moscoso pardoned Posada Carriles.

However, the leading attorney of the Panamanian Anti-Corruption
Division, Mercedes De Leon, said that Posada and his accomplices were
released when a pardon decree had not even been published in the
Official Gazette.
 
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