Georgia journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador

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Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been deported to El Salvador Friday morning at 4 a.m., according to Katherine Jacobsen with the Committee to Protect Journalists. Oscar Guevara said he and his younger brother will head to El Salvador to bring their father cameras, clothes and other personal belongings. Mario Guevara was arrested in June during a “No Kings” protest in DeKalb County. He’s from El Salvador and entered the U.S. legally in 2004. “That’s what this case is about.”CPJ reports Guevara has been the only journalist in prison or ICE detention in the U.S. this year.