The OPC is dismayed by last week's order of the Afganistan National Directorate of Security that local and international media must stop reporting from the scene of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
Yet again, Russia's courts have made a mockery of the government's repeated promises to respect the principles of press freedom and protect Russian journalists as they try to keep Russia's citizens informed about events in your country. In this case...
We write on behalf of our Bangladeshi colleague, Nurul Kabir, editor of New Age. On February 23, someone claiming to be “top terror mamun” phoned Kabir
to threaten him and his family with “dire” consequences if he continues
to write and...
The OPC joins other international news organizations deeply alarmed by your continued attacks on Yemen's independent press. We ask that the Yemen government cease and desist in all manner of these attacks.
The news that Google Inc. has detected a highly sophisticated attack originating in the People’s Republic of China is hardly a surprise. In spite of repeated denials by China’s government, it has been evident for years that China’s government...
In January my co-chair Jeremy Main produced a review of press-freedom abuses around the world in 2009—the first review of the year from any press-freedom organization that I’m aware of. As Jeremy points out, even without the massacre of 30...
The OPC joins the IFJ in condemning a court verdict against Daniel Anido, director of the private radio, Cadena SER, and Rodolfo Irago, Cadena’s news director.
For more than seventy years, we have been among the prime watchdogs over the freedom and rights of expression of our international colleagues and we understand the unique complexity of those issues for the Pakistani government at the present...
This past year was in many ways a great one for Brazil -- a booming economy and then the news that Rio de Janeiro will play host to the 2016 Olympics. Brazil is in a spotlight brighter than ever before, and with that new scrutiny has come...
