Zamora on Monday returned to Mariscal Zavala prison in Guatemala City on the orders of Judge Erick Garcia, whose decision came after another court revoked house arrest from the elPeriodico founder.

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora was returned to jail Monday after an appellate court sided with prosecutors and withdrew his house arrest. Zamora, the founder of El ...

Reuters. Journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin looks on after a judge revoked his house arrest, ordering his return to Mariscal Zavala prison in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 10, 2025.

GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan judge on Friday ruled that jailed journalist José Zamora can leave prison and be held in house arrest after over 800 days behind bars. Zamora, ...

Zamora has been waiting behind bars for a decision on a retrial ever since. Until Friday, he had been kept in the Mariscal Zavala prison in Guatemala City for nearly 810 days.

We emphasise that Jose Ruben Zamora’s case is emblematic of its effects on him as a person and on his work, and its negative and dissuasive impact on the country’s journalistic and media ecosystem.

Imprisoned journalist Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin, founder and president of the newspaper El Periodico, waits for the start of a court hearing in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 26, 2024.

Zamora, 67, founder of the newspaper elPeriódico, was arrested on July 29, 2022, on trumped up charges of money laundering, payback for hard-hitting reporting on the alarming level of corruption in ...

GUATEMALA CITY - A Guatemalan judge ordered prominent journalist Jose Zamora back to jail on Monday in a case that stems from money laundering charges he has dismissed as a political persecution.

Judge Erick Garcia ordered Zamora, the founder of the now-defunct elPeriodico newspaper, ... Guatemala judge orders journalist Zamora back to prison. March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM.