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Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico newspaper, was freed, talks with reporters on October 18, 2024, in Guatemala City before leaving jail for house arrest. A court later ruled that he return to prison. (Photo: AP/Moises Castillo)

‘I will always keep fighting,’ José Rubén Zamora tells CPJ before court orders him back to jail

Less than a month after being moved to house arrest, a Guatemalan appeals court ordered journalist José Rubén Zamora back to jail on November 15, 2024. Zamora remains in house arrest while his lawyers and the Attorney General’s Office have appealed the motion, his son told CPJ. The decision is a new blow to press freedom in Guatemala. Zamora,…

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