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Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin It was this Wednesday 16 months in prison is awaiting retrial against him in an alleged money laundering case. Zamora Marroquin’s family
Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin It was this Wednesday 16 months in prison is awaiting retrial against him in an alleged money laundering case.
Zamora Marroquin’s family assured EFE who expects a journalist to be “justified” the charges against him in debates set to begin in February after the Appeals Chamber ordered a retrial against him “form errors” in the first trial held this year.
The award-winning 67-year-old investigative journalist has been held in the Mariscal Zavala military barracks prison in northern Guatemala City since July 29, 2022, just five days after publishing a scathing critique of the president. Alejandro Giammattei To misconduct by his administration.
Alejandro Giammattei, President of Guatemala.
This week the organization Reporters Without Borders awarded Zamora MarroquÃn with the Independence Prize for her two-decade journey condemnation of state corruption in Guatemala through Newspaperthe newspaper he founded and ran until last year.
Jose Carlos Zamora– commented on the situation, who received the award on behalf of his father.
My father was a political prisoner for 486 days.
The criminal investigation against Zamora MarroquÃn on charges of money laundering is being led by the prosecutor. Rafael Curruchesauthorized by the United States, and the same one that the President-elect indicated, Bernardo Arevalo de Leonbe part of a plan to prevent his inauguration in January 2024.
10th of November, Inter-American Press Society (SIP) noted in its report that journalists in the Central American country are being persecuted by the same individuals who condemned the results of the elections held on June 25 (first round) and August 20 (second round).
At least since 2019 50 people, including journalists, judges and prosecutors, left Guatemala in exile after condemning political persecution against him by the prosecutor’s office (prosecutor’s office).
Jose Ruben Zamora surrounded by police.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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