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Weekly Report - 20 March 2025 (WR-25-11)
GUATEMALA: Outrage as prominent journalist returned to prison
“A spurious case…which evidences the criminalisation strategies of the attorney general’s office.” This was the response by Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo to the decision announced on 10 March by Judge Erick García to return prominent journalist José Rubén Zamora to prison on money laundering charges. Zamora had been moved to house arrest in October 2024 [WR-24-43] after over 800 days behind bars. The case is widely considered a reprisal for Zamora’s investigative journalism and emblematic of the backsliding in press freedom and democracy which ensued under the previous administration led by former president Alejandro Giammattei (2020-2024), and which the anti-corruption reformist Arévalo is struggling to reverse.
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