Category: Letters to Countries

On behalf of the Overseas Press Club of America, we are writing to protest your Government@quot;s refusal of permission for distribution in Guinea of two issues of the news weekly, Jeune Afrique L@quot;Intelligent .

We are writing to you on behalf of the Overseas Press Club of America, representing more than 600 journalists experienced in reporting news around the world. We wish to add our voice to those of other journalism organizations, which have protested the arrest in April of 60 journalists in Nepal.

We write again to protest the continuing mistreatment and repression of journalists attempting to do their jobs in your country. As noted in our letter of May 3, China is the world@quot;s most notorious jailer of journalists, with 41 (to the best of our knowledge) detained at the end of 2003. Since then, there have been several cases in which China has again demonstrated its disdain for Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the clause that declares that “”Everyone has the right… to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.””

The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) protests the secret detention of Sami Yousafzai, a stringer for Newsweek . Yousafzai is being held without any charges, without the right to see a lawyer or members of his family, and without even an official admission that he is being held.

We write to inquire about the reported arrest of Saudi journalist, Fares bin Hizam. If these reports are true, Your Excellency, why is he being held?

We write to protest your country@quot;s part in the continuing worldwide abuse of press freedom.

We write to protest your country@quot;s part in the continuing worldwide abuse of press freedom.

We write to protest your country@quot;s part in the continuing worldwide abuse of press freedom. On this day, World Press Freedom Day, there are — to the best of our knowledge — 193 journalists imprisoned in the jails of 29 countries, most of them solely for having done their jobs. Algeria is one of the 29 countries.
We are informed that despite Algeria@quot;s recent progress toward full democracy, two journalists are still held in Algerian prisons.

We write to protest your country@quot;s part in the continuing world-wide abuse of press freedom.

We write to protest your country@quot;s part in the continuing worldwide abuse of press freedom. On this day, World Press Freedom Day, there are to the best of our knowledge 193 journalists imprisoned in the jails of 29 countries, most of them solely for having done their jobs. The Azerbaijani Republic is one of the 29, and we are informed that you have been holding two of them since 2003 — Rauf Arifoglu and Sadig Ismailov.