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.
- Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara was arrested on June 14 while covering a protest near Atlanta and remains in federal custody in the Atlanta area.
- Authorities charged Guevara with three misdemeanors related to a May 20 incident, but local officials later dropped these charges due to insufficient evidence, amid claims of political persecution.
- An immigration judge granted Guevara a $7,500 bond last week, but despite repeated attempts by his family to pay, ICE refused the bond and continues to detain him, citing him as a threat.
- Guevara, who holds valid work authorization and has a green card application pending, expressed that he is being targeted due to his reporting on street-level law enforcement activities and has appealed to Salvadoran President Bukele for assistance.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists criticized ICE for ignoring the court order to release Guevara and called for respect of legal rulings to avoid unnecessary detention and jurisdictional transfers.
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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…
Journalist Mario Guevara is still in ICE detention despite being granted bond
Journalist Mario Guevara has released a statement from an ICE detention facility. He was arrested during a 'No Kings' protest in metro Atlanta in June and has been in ICE custody since.
Why is ICE still imprisoning Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara?
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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