“The Supreme Court of Guatemala rejected this Thursday [March 27] a legal appeal by the defense of journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín to reverse the resolution that sent him back to a military prison in the Central American country on March 3.
The Supreme Court decided to reject the appeal filed by the 67-year-old journalist because, in the judges' opinion, the defense should exhaust other avenues before going to the Supreme Court's Appeals and Preliminary Trials Chamber.
The journalist's defense had filed this appeal to prevent Zamora Marroquín from returning to prison in early March, and although the law gives the judges five business days to rule, the decision wasn't issued until today [March 27]."
