The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press led a coalition of local and national civil society and press freedom organizations in a Thursday letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressing alarm about the continued detention of journalist Mario Guevara.
Guevara, a Spanish-language digital reporter, has been in detention for two months after his June 14 arrest while livestreaming a protest in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb. He was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after the agency issued a detainer against the journalist, who has authorization to work in the United States.
All misdemeanor charges against Guevara have been dropped, and a federal immigration judge granted the journalist bond on July 1. Yet Guevara remains in detention at Georgia’s Folkston ICE Processing Center after having been shuffled around five different local and federal detention facilities across the state.
CPJ sent a previous letter to DHS on June 20 and did not receive a response.
Read the full letter here.
This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.