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Committee Report to the Board of Governors January 31, 2012
Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012

Since our last meeting, your committee has written letters to the governments of the Philippines, Bahrain, Russia, Ethiopia, Turkey, Pakistan and Mexico. They are all available for your reading pleasure on the OPC Web site, and I call your...

Pakistan
Pakistan January 20, 2012
Friday, 20 Jan 2012

We are not so much dismayed as utterly discouraged by this week’s murder of our colleague, Mukarram Khan Aatif, while he prayed in a mosque north of Peshawar today. His death is a special kind of blasphemy, an offense to his faith and an offense...

Mexico
OPC Condemns Yet Another Murder of a Mexican Journalist
Friday, 13 Jan 2012

How appalling that only ten days into the New Year, the world hears of yet another murder of a journalist in Mexico, where in 2011 the media lost ten people to violent murders, still unpunished. On January 6, Raul Querino Garza was killed in...

Philippines
Philippines January 10, 2012
Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012

As the New Year begins, the Philippines has logged its first murder of a journalist for 2012. We refer to the shooting death of Christopher Guarin, a radio commentator gunned down in front of his wife and daughter on January 5 after his evening...

Turkey
OPC Assails Turkey's Crackdown on Media
Friday, 06 Jan 2012

We mark with sadness and deep concern the first anniversary of our letter to you about your government's repression of freedom of the press in your nation. Turkey’s march away from free speech, its open scorn of the role of journalists in a...

Russian Federation
OPC Expresses Outrage at the Murder of Khadzhimurad Kamalov
Monday, 19 Dec 2011

We write to add the Overseas Press Club of America to the many outraged voices denouncing the murder of Khadzhimurad Kamalov, founder of the independent weekly, Chernovik, in Makhachkala.

Bahrain
OPC Denounces Gassing of New York Times Duo in Bahrain
Thursday, 15 Dec 2011

We object in the strongest possible terms to the treatment of our colleagues, Nicholas Kristof and Adam Ellick of The New York Times, on December 9, while covering a protest in Bahrain.

Report to the Board of Governors November 29, 2011
Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011

Three letters have gone out since our last meeting, all of some interest, and three more have been assigned.

United States
OPC Letter to NYC Mayor Bloomberg
Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011

The OPC deplores the attempt by the NYC police to prevent the press, as well as legal observers, from witnessing the removal of demonstrators from Zuccotti Park on Tuesday morning, as well as the arrests and mistreatment of reporters who tried to...

Russian Federation
OPC Applauds Russian Journalists Who Nominated Beketov
Wednesday, 02 Nov 2011

The announcement that Mikhail Beketov will be a recipient of the Prime Minister's annual award for excellence in journalism seems to us an exercise in cynicism and hypocrisy, in the absence of any apparent effort to find and...