This March 27, the amparo and prejudice chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) issued a statement where the suspension of two amparos presented by the lawyers of the lawyers presented by the lawyers of the journalist Jose Rubén Zamora.
In the statement, the CSJ notes that the resolved amparos, the 738-2025 and 762-2025 have as an authority denounced the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Criminal Branch.
The CSJ explains that the reason for the suspension of the amparos is because Zamora’s lawyers would not have submitted a appeal for replacement at the time, so that, once that resource was resolved, it would go to the protection.
“Therefore, since ordinary resources have not been exhausted and having attended directly under the protection, the Constitutional Court has sat jurisprudence in that sense, therefore, there is no definitiveness, of that account the chamber of amparo and prejudice resolves unanimously suspending the protection ultimately,” says the letter.
Rubén Zamora situation
On March 10, the Second Court executed the Order of the Third Appeals Chamber, so the journalist Jose Rubén Zamora returned to preventive detention, after the revocation of the substitute measures he had received.
“Mr. Judge had no options. Arbitrarily, the Chamber ordered this. Despite his convictions, they left him in a dead end, ”said Zamora that day after the resolution.
Since July 29, 2022, when he was arrested, Zamora has received psychological intimidations, according to the complaints that he and his family have made public.
The journalist He left probation on October 19, 2024, after remaining 813 days in prison.
On October 18, 2024, the journalist was benefited with house arrest, in a case in which he is indicated as a conspiracy for the obstruction of justice.