{"id":9669,"date":"2024-05-16T00:40:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2024-05-16T00:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:40:57","slug":"guatemala-court-opens-door-to-freeing-jailed-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=9669","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala court opens door to freeing jailed journalist\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/01000000-0aff-0242-abaf-08dbcd2785bd_w800_h450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<span class=\"dateline\">Guatemala City \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Guatemalan court on Wednesday granted a prominent journalist and corruption critic a conditional release in a case of alleged graft, though he must clear another legal hurdle before being freed from prison. <\/p>\n<p>Jose Ruben Zamora has rejected money-laundering accusations against him as retaliation for his newspaper&#8217;s reporting on alleged government corruption under former right-wing President Alejandro Giammattei. <\/p>\n<p>A criminal court granted the 67-year-old home detention while awaiting a retrial on those charges, its president, Veronica Ruiz, announced. <\/p>\n<p>The three judges decided there was no danger of Zamora fleeing or obstructing the investigation and criminal proceedings against him. <\/p>\n<p>However, he will not be freed from the military barracks in Guatemala City until a separate obstruction-of-justice case against him is resolved. <\/p>\n<p>Zamora told journalists after the ruling that he was waiting for a hearing date in that case, which he said he believed would be &#8220;dismissed and I can go home.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In October 2023, an appeals court overturned a six-year prison sentence for Zamora \u2014 founder of the now-shuttered <em>El Periodico<\/em> \u2014 and ordered a new trial. <\/p>\n<p>A date has not yet been set. <\/p>\n<p>Press freedom and rights groups have denounced his prosecution as a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Colombia&#8217;s prestigious Gabo Foundation named Zamora the winner of its annual journalism award for his &#8220;tenacious and courageous professional work.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Jose Carlos Zamora, the journalist&#8217;s son, told Agence France-Presse in an interview on Wednesday that his father had suffered &#8220;torture&#8221; in prison during Giammattei&#8217;s government. <\/p>\n<p>The younger Zamora, who now lives in Miami with his mother and brother, said his father saw prison &#8220;as part of his work&#8221; and that it &#8220;helped expose abuses of power in Guatemala.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Giammattei has been accused by rights groups of overseeing a crackdown on anti-graft prosecutors and journalists during his term, which ended in January. <\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by President Bernardo Arevalo, an underdog anti-corruption campaigner who 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