Guatemalan Nickel Company Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Children play in the Izabal Lake in Guatemala in this photograph from August 2002. Local police on November 11, 2017, arrested Jerson Antonio Xitumul Morales, a reporter with the independent digital media outlet Prensa Comunitaria, after he reported on a local fishermen guild's protests in the Izabal province. (AP/Jaime Puebla)

Guatemalan journalist imprisoned after covering protests

November 17, 2017 4:10 PM EST

New York, November 17, 2017–Guatemalan authorities should immediately release community reporter Jerson Antonio Xitumul Morales and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.