Press Freedom
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Reporter Without Borders
OPC Calls for Tanzania to Release CPJ Workers
NEW YORK, November 7, 2018—The Overseas Press Club of America calls on Tanzanian authorities to immediately release Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo and return their passports. The pair are representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists working on a reporting mission in Tanzania, according to the CPJ. Quintal is the Africa program coordinator and Mumo is CPJ’s sub-Saharan Africa representative.
You can read a statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists here.
The Overseas Press Club is an international association of journalists based in New York City that works to encourage the highest standards in journalism, to educate the next generation of foreign correspondents and to promote international press freedom and the well-being of colleagues in the field.