MIAMI (EFE).— The Inter American Press Affiliation (IAPA) welcomed the choice of a Guatemalan courtroom that yesterday granted a measure of home arrest to outstanding journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, imprisoned since 2022 following his criticism of the federal government he presided over for corruption. Alejandro Giammattei (2020-2024).
Zamora, nevertheless, will stay in jail as a result of he faces two different judicial proceedings for alleged obstruction of Justice by the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Workplace), whose management is sanctioned by the US.
The IAPA, based mostly in Miami, denounced in an announcement that Zamora stays detained “for no cause” and urged the Justice of the Central American nation to order “the rapid launch” of the journalist.
The Ninth Legal Sentencing Courtroom ordered the conditional launch of Zamora, 67, who has been in jail since July 2022 “in retaliation for his informative work,” mentioned the IAPA, following being accused of the alleged crime of cash laundering.
Moreover, the IAPA continues, Zamora was sentenced to 6 years in jail final June, in “a course of tormented by irregularities.” Three months later the sentence was annulled and a brand new trial was ordered, which has been postponed on a number of events.
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2024-05-30 09:29:49
