WAN-IFRA’s Board calls on the Guatemalan authorities to cease their harassment of El Periódico
2023-06-29. The Board of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), meeting during the 74th World News Media Congress taking place in Taipei, Taiwan 28th-30th June 2023, notes with concern the deteriorating situation for press freedom in Guatemala. It is appalled by the six-year prison sentence recently handed down to veteran journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, and calls on the Guatemalan authorities to cease their harassment of him and the independent news organisation he leads, El Periódico.