We write to protest the increasing persecution of bloggers in Egypt, who are simply exercising the right to free expression guaranteed by the nation’s constitution.
Author: OPC of America
OPC Calls on Medvedev to End Unpunished Assaults on Russian Media
Yet another Russian journalist has been beaten nearly to death, the latest victim of an on-going series of attacks that notoriously go unpunished in your country.
Three Honored by IWMF
Iryna Khalip, Agnes Taile and Jila Baniyaghoob are recipients of this year’s Courage in Journalism Awards selected by the International Women’s Media Foundation.
Heger Book Recalls Vietnam
Laurette Heger, former wife of the late Ernie Hoberecht, a longtime OPC member, wrote the book Saigon Is Burning.
She writes of places familiar to anyone who has lived in Vietnam in
winning prose style.
Saberi Released
Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in
Iran, walked out of Tehran’s Evin prison May 11 after an appeals court
reduced her eight-year jail sentence for espionage to a two-year
suspended term.
Saberi Released
Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Iran, left Tehran’s Evin jail May 11 after an appeals court reduced her eight-year jail sentence for espionage to a two-year suspended term.
Colombia May 8, 2009
The OPC joins CPJ, RSF and other press freedom groups in denouncing the “brazen murder” of radio journalist José Everardo Aguilar on April 24. We echo the call for an open and aggressive investigation by authorities to demonstrate your nation’s commitment to a free press.
Journalists Join Saberi’s Hunger Strike
The plight of Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American reporter jailed in Iran, and two American reporters being held in North Korea has triggered an international hunger strike led by Reporters Without Borders.
Fiji April 29, 2009
The OPC strenuously objects to the expulsion of independent journalists from Fiji and urges its government to restore press rights under the United Nations convention that guarantees universal freedom of expression.
OPC/RSF Host Panel on the Mexican Drug “War”
A panel discussion on Mexico’s drug violence and its consequences for the journalists who cover it drew a packed house to Club Quarters in New York on April 27. The panel brought together two veteran reporters — Jorge Luis Sierra and Alfredo Corchado — and Pablo Piccato, an historian with special interest in the study of crime in Mexico.