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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -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 that rights groups have branded an attack on free speech. Zamora has said the case against him is a "political persecution" by Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei due to reporting on alleged corruption involving the president and his close allies in Zamora's newspaper, elPeriodico, which shut down in May. Zamora, 66, said he would appeal and possibly take the case to...

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 that rights groups have branded an attack on free speech.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -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 that rights groups have branded an attack on free speech.

Guatemalan police arrested a former top prosecutor on Friday, accusing him of abusing his authority for investigating corruption allegations against an ex-president of the Central American country.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan police arrested a former top prosecutor on Friday, accusing him of abusing his authority for investigating corru...