After more than 800 days, renowned Guatemalan journalist Jose Rubén Zamora has been granted house arrest. This is wonderful, welcomed news. Still, the fight for his freedom is not over. The judicial harassment against him must end. #ZamoraLibre#FreeZamora
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ICFJ calls for the immediate release of #JoseRubénZamora, an @ICFJKnight Awardee unjustly jailed for two years. The acclaimed journalist is being held in inhumane conditions in Guatemala, and his continued imprisonment is a clear assault on #pressfreedom: https://t.co/6NK4wJI40m
Today marks a dark milestone: Journalist #JoseRubénZamora of Guatemala has been unjustly jailed for 730 days. “His continued imprisonment is a clear assault on #pressfreedom,” says ICFJ President @smoshavi of our @ICFJKnight Award winner. #FreeZamora now: https://t.co/6NK4wJI40m
ICFJ supports the urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture by José Rubén Zamora’s legal team. ICFJ Knight Award winner Zamora has been wrongfully detained in Guatemala for almost two years and held in conditions no human being should ever have to endure. Journalism is not a crime. #FreeZamora
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ICFJ is joining @pressfreedom & more than 60 other organizations in requesting that Israeli authorities immediately end the restrictions on foreign media entering Gaza and grant independent access to international news organizations. Read the statement: https://t.co/VIUDR9m4uI
A UN working group has found @ICFJKnight Awardee Jose Rubén Zamora's arrest in Guatemala "arbitrary."
"...the appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Zamora immediately and to grant him the effective right to obtain compensation and other forms of reparation."
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