"Amnesty International and a group of press organizations called for the release of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora on Tuesday [July 29], three years after his arrest on accusations of money laundering that they consider a setup to attack freedom of information.
Zamora, 68, who is also accused of blackmail, has been in prison since 2022 for a case that international observers and several governments describe as a setup by the previous Guatemalan government and its collaborators who still hold positions in the Attorney General's Office.
'We urgently demand the immediate release of José Rubén Zamora so that he can defend himself in freedom,' Amnesty said in a statement alongside the organizations Red Centroamericana de Periodistas, No Nos Callarán, and Red Rompe el Miedo Guatemala."
