“On Monday [Jan. 13], Guatemala's Supreme Court granted an amparo to Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora that suspends his re-entry into prison, as an appeals court had ordered last November.
Zamora was released from prison in October 2024 after almost two years serving a six-year sentence for money laundering that was later annulled. A judge granted him alternative measures, such as house arrest, to face that case and another one against him in freedom, but the prosecution appealed the decision.
A month later, on Nov. 15, 2024, an appeals court ordered his return to pre-trial detention.
At that time, Zamora's defense — which alleges that he has been criminalized for years by the prosecution due to his publications on corruption in the justice system — filed a writ of amparo to postpone his return to prison while the appeal was resolved. Although this appeal is still pending, the Supreme Court of Justice on Monday [Jan. 13] granted the journalist amparo to avoid further incarceration.”
