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A Guatemala appeals court overturned the house arrest decision of journalist José Rubén Zamora on March 4, according to a statement published by Amnesty International on Wednesday. Following the court’s ruling, Zamora was returned to jail on Monday.
Amnesty International condemned the re-imprisonment of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, calling his new arrest arbitrary and part of an ongoing campaign of judicial harassment against him. Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International said:
The group defines a prisoner of conscience as any person, whose liberty is deprived solely because of their political, religious or other conscientiously held beliefs, their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or other status.
In March 2024, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also considered the deprivation of liberty of Zamora as arbitrary because the detention was the result of his exercise of the right to free speech and on discriminatory grounds because of his political opinions. The Working Group concluded that the arbitrary detention of Zamora violates articles 2(1), 9, 14, 19 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have similarly condemned the Guatemalan authorities’ actions. Zamora became well known for covering corruption at the highest levels of government. The authorities arrested Zamora in July 2022 on money laundering, blackmail and influence-peddling charges, with the case against him seen as retaliation for his reporting. He was convicted in June 2023 for these charges and sentenced to 6 years in prison. This conviction was later overturned by the Guatemalan Constitutional Court in October 2024. Nonetheless, he has remained behind bars.
The ruling comes just months after the Guatemalan AG Maria Consuelo Porras was accused of political persecution and after the Inter-American Court found Guatemala responsible for the 1989 forced disappearances of indigenous rights defenders. Zamorra is also facing separate charges of obstruction of justice and falsification of his signature on immigration battles.
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Amnesty International condemned the re-imprisonment of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, calling his new arrest arbitrary and part of an ongoing campaign of judicial harassment against him. Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International said:
Zamora is the founder of elPeriódico, which ceased publication in May 2023. According to Amnesty International, Zamora is a prisoner of conscience because the imprisonment is solely for punishing his investigative journalism, revealing corruption in the country.
The group defines a prisoner of conscience as any person, whose liberty is deprived solely because of their political, religious or other conscientiously held beliefs, their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or other status.
In March 2024, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also considered the deprivation of liberty of Zamora as arbitrary because the detention was the result of his exercise of the right to free speech and on discriminatory grounds because of his political opinions. The Working Group concluded that the arbitrary detention of Zamora violates articles 2(1), 9, 14, 19 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have similarly condemned the Guatemalan authorities’ actions. Zamora became well known for covering corruption at the highest levels of government. The authorities arrested Zamora in July 2022 on money laundering, blackmail and influence-peddling charges, with the case against him seen as retaliation for his reporting. He was convicted in June 2023 for these charges and sentenced to 6 years in prison. This conviction was later overturned by the Guatemalan Constitutional Court in October 2024. Nonetheless, he has remained behind bars.
The ruling comes just months after the Guatemalan AG Maria Consuelo Porras was accused of political persecution and after the Inter-American Court found Guatemala responsible for the 1989 forced disappearances of indigenous rights defenders. Zamorra is also facing separate charges of obstruction of justice and falsification of his signature on immigration battles.
The post Guatemala jails journalist José Rubén Zamora, overturning house arrest decision appeared first on JURIST - News.
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