BLUF: A Guatemalan journalist, José Rubén Zamora, who has reported on government corruption for decades, faces 40 years in prison on trumped-up money laundering charges that rights groups believe are politically motivated, in a trial that has violated due process, amidst a climate of increasing state repression of the press and democratic institutions, as part of an effort to dismantle anti-corruption measures and silence critical voices, marking a dangerous regression from the progress made towards democracy and accountability after the peace accords following decades of war.
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