Overview

• CPJ confirmed Friday that Guevara was flown to El Salvador after more than three months in federal detention.
• He was arrested in June while livestreaming an Atlanta-area protest, and the misdemeanor charges were later dismissed.
• An immigration judge in Georgia authorized his release on bond in July, but ICE kept him detained as the BIA reopened his old case citing a 2012 removal order.
• The Eleventh Circuit this week declined an emergency request to block removal after the ACLU sought a temporary restraining order.
• Press-freedom and civil-liberties groups condemned the detention and deportation as harmful to journalism, while his family reported they could not say goodbye and alleged harsh conditions including solitary confinement.