Category: Letters to Countries

The OPC writes to condemn the vicious attacks on the media in Somalia. They are the most deadly in all of Africa this year: five journalists have been killed, and others injured, harassed, threatened, or forced to flee the country.

We urge the Iraqi government to stop the current campaign of suppressing independent journalism and to release of two bloggers now detained.

We join other media watchdog groups in calling for more swift and even-handed justice in the brutal murder of journalist, Francis Kainda Nyaruri.

We write to deplore, and to analyze, your government’s recent efforts to obliterate any trace of the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising and reprisal on June 6, 1989.

The show trial and June 8 sentencing of American correspondents, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, are a grave offense to journalists around the world. We at the OPC have made the case in two previous letters to the Korea government. If they mistakenly strayed over an undefined border into North Korean territory from China, they might — at most — deserve a reprimand.

We write to applaud the evident determination of the Mexican Attorney General to find the killers of our colleague, Eliseo Barrón Hernández, murdered last week after being dragged from his home in Gómez Palacio.

The OPC appeals to the government of China to do everything in its power to influence the government of North Korea to release two American journalists now being held there.