"A Guatemalan court sentenced journalist José Rubén Zamora to six years in prison on Wednesday [June 14] for the crime of money laundering, which the editor of the newspaper elPeriódico has denied throughout his year-long trial. The court decided to acquit Zamora of the other two charges against him, which were blackmail and influence peddling, finding that there was insufficient evidence against the journalist. The prosecution had asked for a 40-year prison sentence in a legal process viewed by Zamora as political persecution against him. Zamora's relatives have informed that they will appeal the conviction and will exhaust the entire legal process in Guatemala, even going before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [IACHR] if they do not succeed in reversing the sentence."
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