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GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge’s order to give house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora, known for railing against corruption in the Central American country. The reporter has been in prison for two years, something that has sparked outrage by press freedom groups across the world. Guatemala’s prosecutors appealed a judge’s decision in May to grant him house arrest.
It ordered the lower court judge to carry out further procedures and revisit the decision to grant house arrest. “What the court did is pure harassment, it is a psychological war by the prosecution and the plaintiffs against my father,” said José Zamora Marroquín, the journalist’s son. “They demonstrate their desperation to continue delaying the process in a malicious way.” Press freedom groups have labeled Zamora’s detention a political prosecution. Zamora concurs.
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