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Guatemala: Supreme Court chamber rejects provisional protection for journalist Jose Rubén Zamora and orders his return to prison

"This Jan. 9, the Amparo and Pretrial Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice denied the provisional protection requested by the defense of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico, and ratified the resolution of the Second Court of Appeals that revoked substitute measures and ordered his preventive detention.

According to an alert published by the group No Nos Callarán, the ruling of the Amparo and Pretrial Chamber... forces the Ninth Sentencing Court to schedule the hearing to execute the resolution, which will take place on Monday [Jan. 13] at 8:15 a.m., with which Zamora again could be transferred to a detention center.

The journalist's defense told eP Investiga that it has not yet been notified regarding this resolution and that, when it is, they would analyze it to raise the case before the Constitutional Court to try to stop Zamora's return to prison."

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