A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced Jose Zamora, a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, to six years in prison for money laundering in a case rights groups have branded an attack on free speech.
Zamora was also issued a fine of about $38,300, the court said. He was absolved of charges of blackmail and influence peddling, of which he had also been accused.
Zamora, 66, has said the case against him is a political persecution by President Alejandro Giammattei... Читать дальше...