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Guatemala: Journalist Jose Zamora Gets 6 Years in Prison

Zamora was not allowed to present documents that he submitted for his defense and his witnesses were not allowed to participate.

The journalist was taken from jail and declared guilty by a kangaroo court in the early morning hours of June 9, with no right to defense.

Moamen Sumreen, 22, was in serious condition after he was shot while covering Israeli troops’ demolition of an apartment building.

Nicaraguan journalist Victor Ticay was detained over his coverage of a banned Easter procession.

With its founder and director Jose Ruben Zamora in jail, elPeriodico de Guatemala says goodbye.

The founder of El Periodico de Guatemala, José Ruben Zamora, has been in prison since July 2022, accused without evidence…

Some of the demonstrators shouted threats, including “Gorriti, your days are numbered” and “Gorriti: you will die.”

Zamora has worked as a journalist for 16 years, covering the Caribbean coastal region for privately owned TV broadcaster Canal 10.

Police officers detained the journalist along with her children, ages six and eleven, while they were traveling on a public bus.

This journalist from Nandaime in southwestern Nicaragua was the first member of his family to go to a university.