Son of imprisoned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora speaks
It has been almost a year since prominent Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, founder of the independent investigative newspaper “El Periódico”, was imprisoned in his homeland in connection with a case denounced by human rights activists and groups as a political persecution that seeks to undermine democracy and freedom of expression.“The State of Guatemala and more specifically President Alejandro Giammattei has held my father hostage for 343 days,” José Carlos Zamora, a journalist and media executive in the United States, said in Spanish. “He spends 23 hours a day locked up in solitary confinement, with barely an hour of sun.”Guatemalan…
