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Jail term of 40 years sought for Guatemala newspaper founder
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan prosecutors on Tuesday asked a court to impose a 40-year jail sentence on the founder of a newspaper critical of the government in a money laundering case widely denounced as a show trial.Journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, 66, has already been behind bars for 10 months awaiting trial in a case media organizations say amounts to an attack on freedom of expression in a country clamping down on government detractors in several spheres.Zamora was arrested last July and charged with money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling. He denies the charges.The prosecution claims he extorted money from business leaders in exchange for not publishing damaging information about

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