Second Court of Appeal Guatemala overturns six-year money laundering sentence against Jose Ruben Zamoraa well-known journalist who criticized the authorities and ordered a new trial reported this Friday Reuters One of his sons.

Zamora, 67, was sentenced in mid-June in a case he classified as “political persecution” president, Alejandro Giammatteidue to publications of his extinct medium newspaper about alleged cases of corruption by the president and his entourage.

Jose Zamora, – commented one of the journalist’s children Reuters.

Until today, we had access to the resolution. They’re going to repeat the whole process. We feel very happy and consider this as a victory and a step towards achieving your freedom.

“By repeating this process, we have the opportunity to again ask for a change to the measure (…) so that this process can be carried out, at least under house arrest,” he added.

Zamora was captured in the middle of last year at his home in the Guatemalan capital after a raid that lasted several hours.

In 1996, Zamora founded newspaperone of the country’s main investigative media outlets, which could not stay afloat after the capture of its founder.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the journalist allegedly received $38,461 to finance his media outlet, which did not regularly flow into the banking system.