BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a 2024 law banning bullfights in the South American country, and it went further in protecting animal rights by adding a national prohibition of cockfighting.

The bullfighting ban was approved by Colombia’s Congress in May 2024, after months of heated debates, and when President Gustavo Petro signed the bill into law he said he couldn’t “tell the world that killing living and sentient beings for entertainment is culture.”

The Constitutional Court released a statement Thursday saying that it had rejected an appeal from bullfighting aficionados who argued the law violated their rights to artistic expression. The court didn’t explained the reasoning behind its decision and added that it was extending the ban to cockf

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