© 2025 South Carolina Public Radio
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Notice for Friday, January 24, 2025: State government offices and employees should follow the hazardous weather decisions made by the county government in the area where the state office is located. Click here for more information.

Guatemalan journalist and publisher imprisoned by authorities for more than 8 months

Published April 10, 2023 at 9:45 AM EDT
Award-winning journalist Jose Ruben Zamora stands inside a cell after a court hearing, in Guatemala City, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Moises Castillo/AP)
Award-winning journalist Jose Ruben Zamora stands inside a cell after a court hearing, in Guatemala City, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Moises Castillo/AP)

Guatemalan authorities have imprisoned José Rubén Zamora for more than eight months. He’s a journalist and publisher of El Periódico, a newspaper investigating corruption in the country.

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with José Rubén Zamora’s son, José Carlos Zamora, about his case.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.