April 24, 2024
Letters to Countries
Dear Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha – We, the undersigned 58 press freedom organizations, human rights organizations, and publications write to request your urgent intervention to secure the immediate release of Fahad Shah, editor of the online news portal The Kashmir Walla, from jail, and the withdrawal of all police investigations launched into his journalistic work…
Journalists from news organizations, press clubs, and press freedom organizations around the world are urging the U.S. State Department to help secure safe passage from Afghanistan for journalists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Afghan service…
The International Olympic Committee assured the Overseas Press Club in a June 14 letter that “it is working constantly to ensure that the media are able to report on the Olympic Winter Games” in Beijing in 2022. But it noted that the IOC cannot “change the laws or the political system of a sovereign country, including its rules that govern the ability of foreign media to cover stories outside the Olympic Games.”
Dear Executive Director Kranz, Dear Co-Chair Holstein – Thank you for your letter and your interest in the Olympic Games. We firmly believe that the Olympic Games are a platform for cooperation and constructive engagement, and it is on this basis that we work with all our hosts. The Olympic Games are the only event that brings the entire world together in peaceful competition…
Dear Mssrs. Klaue and Adams – Thank you for your letter of 14 June. We agree that the Olympics stand for peace, solidarity and resilience. And we take your point that you cannot change the laws or political system of a sovereign country…
NEW YORK, October 25, 2018—The Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Silurians have invited Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, to a public meeting to explain the Saudi government’s treatment of the press, and the abduction and murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Overseas Press Club of America is alarmed by the increasingly hostile attacks on the news media by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump…
Sign the OPC’s Petition on Change.org >> To His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey March 9, 2016 Mr. President, We, the Overseas Press Club of America — an independent organization dedicated to advancing global reporting and press freedom — call on you…
NEW YORK, New York –Sept. 16, 2014– For more than 75 years, Overseas Press Club members have reported news from China and Hong Kong, advancing the world’s understanding of China.
But within the past year, conditions for reporting in China have deteriorated sharply with threats, intimidation, censorship, and denials of work visas. International news media and the Chinese press are under pressure not seen since 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and military crackdown. That reality was underscored during a reunion of some 70 current and former China and Hong Kong correspondents held in New York on Sept. 12, and by the most recent position paper of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. http://bit.ly/1u1ZONV
The OPC adds its voice to the chorus of disappointment and anger that has followed the news of the Justice Department’s wholesale intrusion into telephone records of the Associated Press. Join the discussion on Twitter |
