The Guatemalan journalist will stay out of prison. However, he remains under house arrest for a conviction that many have described as “persecution of press freedom”.

In a case that many have described as political persecution and an attempt at destabilization, the Semilla party filed a writ of amparo and hoped to reverse the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office, a fierce opponent of Arévalo’s progressive government.

The case against the investigative journalist has been labeled by many as a politically motivated act of persecution and violation of freedom of press.

The Attorney General’s Office has accused President Bernardo Arévalo of corruption and other crimes. Many see these accusations as a form of political persecution against the first progressive president in more than 40 years in the Central American country.

José Rubén Zamora Marroquín was arrested in July 2022, which many believe because he exposed several corruption cases and fraudulent businesses of the Alejandro Giammattei government

Human rights organizations, journalist associations, and social movements have condemned Zamora’s arrest as political persecution for revealing several corruption cases and fraudulent businesses of the Alejandro Giammattei government