"A group of journalists asked Guatemala’s highest court on Tuesday [June 2] to respect freedom of expression during a hearing called by the judicial body to consider a prosecutor's request aiming to reactivate a criminal case against them—a move the media workers label as persecution.
The Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity, or FECI, wants a group of journalists and columnists from the defunct newspaper elPeriódico to be investigated under ordinary law for the crime of obstruction of justice, after they voiced opinions regarding judicial irregularities in the case of their founder, journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín.
To achieve this, the prosecutor's office filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court, given that the case had been dismissed by other criminal courts. The high court held a public hearing this Tuesday to evaluate the appeal."
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