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Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala produces and distributes news and reports information from across Guatemala, CERIGUA also works on a number of topics at the national level, including freedom of expression and women’s, indigenous, mining and agrarian issues, among others.
Jean Ramses Anleu Fernández, the Guatemalan I.T. worker arrested for expressing critical opinion via his Twitter profile (username Jeanfer) regarding the banking scandal taking place in the country this week, has been released from jail and is now under house arrest. Read more here
Guatemalan tweeter Jean Anleau (http://twitter.com/jeanfer) has been arrested for causing ‘financial panic’. Anleau had suggested in a tweet that Guatemalans should fight corruption by withdrawing all their money from banks.
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The goals of Asociación de Periodistas de Guatemala—Comisión de Libertad de Prensa are to defend freedom of expression, information, thought, and press in Guatemala. APG also protects the right to inform and to be informed, and defends the practice of journalism and the interests and rights of its members.