BOGOTA (Reuters) -Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced by a judge on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process and bribery of a public official, in a long-running case over connections to former right-wing paramilitaries.

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery

B OGOTÁ, Colombia—Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, an icon of the Latin American right whose government worked with the U.S. to battle Marxist rebels, was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest in a witness-tampering case related to the country’s long-running internal conflict.