GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -A Guatemalan decide on Friday dominated that jailed journalist Jose Zamora can go away jail and be held in home arrest after over 800 days behind bars.
Zamora, a widely known journalist who based the now-defunct elPeriodico newspaper and whose work has criticized successive governments, was arrested in July 2022 on cash laundering prices.
He has argued that he was a political prisoner on account of his work.
Zamora was in 2023 sentenced to 6 years in jail for cash laundering. An appeals courtroom later overturned the conviction and ordered a brand new trial for 2025.
Decide Erick Garcia on Friday argued that Zamora’s time in preventative jail had reached its restrict, in step with human rights requirements.
“We’re imposing home arrest,” Garcia mentioned in his ruling. “He’s additionally forbidden to go away the nation with out judicial authorization.”
“I’m very happy. I admire what is going on,” Zamora mentioned after the choice.
The United Nations in August mentioned Zamora was being held in circumstances that will quantity to torture, citing a report from a panel of consultants, and known as on authorities to handle allegations of inhumane circumstances.
