US EditionICE defies court, says journalist Mario Guevara 'not releasable' - Committee to Protect Journalists
FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUL 8 – Mario Guevara remains detained after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rejected a $7,500 bond granted by a judge despite his 20 years of legal residency, press groups say.
- Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language journalist, was arrested on June 14 while covering a protest and remains in ICE custody despite being granted bond by an immigration judge last week.
- Guevara has been authorized to work and reside in the U.S. and was moved between multiple jails while ICE challenged his release.
- Charges against Guevara were dismissed by DeKalb County Solicitor-General, who stated there was not enough evidence to support prosecution.
- Press freedom groups criticized Guevara's arrest and argued that there seems to be a coordinated effort to keep him detained.
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A week after an immigration judge granted him bail, a Hispanic-speaking journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody. Police outside of Atlanta arrested Mario Guevara while covering a protest on June 14, and was handed over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service several days later. He was being held in a immigration detention center in Folkston, southeastern Georgia, near the Florida…
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A week after a federal immigration judge ordered his release on bond, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara still remains in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He was initially arrested June 14, while covering an anti-ICE protest in DeKalb County. Since then, he’s been shuffled through five Georgia jails and ICE detention centers, even though the initial DeKalb charges were dropped. Doraville police arrested Guevara on three misde…
The Immigration and Customs Service refuses to release Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran journalist who has lived in the U.S. for decades.
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