Court finds Colombia responsible for rape and torture of journalist Jineth Bedoya

A court has found that the Colombian state bears responsibility for the kidnap, rape and torture of journalist Jineth Bedoya by right-wing paramilitaries in 2000.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Monday ruled that the state of Colombia bears "responsibility" for the ordeal of a female journalist who was kidnapped, raped and then tortured in 2000 by paramilitaries.

The Colombian state was guilty of "failing to investigate the threats that had been received by" journalist Jineth Bedoya who was at the time investigating a criminal network, according to a statement released by the judicial wing of the Organization of American States (OAS), headquartered in San Jose, Costa Rica.