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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...

Report to the OPC Board of Governors, September 2011
Monday, 26 Sep 2011

The FOP Committee's concern has always been to make the OPC an essential participant in the advocacy of professional and human rights for journalists around the world. Notwithstanding the small numbers of its all-volunteer effort, OPC, as the...

Freedom of the Press Report September 28, 2010
Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto

This past week, the reason the OPC Freedom of the Press Committee continues to bother about making noise about colleagues in jeopardy was brought home to us by a Texas court.

Freedom of the Press Committee Annual Report 2010
Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010
President Obama signs the Daniel Pearl Act.

We begin the annual report with some good news. This past year we wrote two letters that were not protests but congratulations: one to Raul Castro and one to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Committee Report to the OPC Board January 26, 2010
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010

In January my co-chair Jeremy Main produced a review of press-freedom abuses around the world in 2009—the first review of the year from any press-freedom organization that I’m aware of. As Jeremy points out, even without the massacre of 30...

Freedom of the Press Committee Report to OPC Board of Governors
Wednesday, 09 Dec 2009
Sheriff Mike Scott

OPC's press-freedom committee doesn't often have cause to address itself to issues in the United States, though it’s far from unprecedented. The most recent example, involving a Florida public official, is significant because it illustrates the...

Freedom of the Press Committee Report September 29, 2009
Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009
OPC

Afghanistan, Mexico, Slovenia, Zambia, Venezuela all lead the pack of this month's activity on the Freedom of the Press Committee for the OPC, plus a committee change announcement.

Report to the Board of Governors May 26, 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009

The highlight of the Committee's work since our last meeting was the panel discussion on Mexico's drug violence and its consequences for the journalists who cover it. Mexico is now among the most dangerous places in the world to work in the news...

Freedom of the Press Committee Report April 2, 2009
Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009

Since the February 24 board meeting, your committee has written letters of protest to the governments of Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Iran, Afghanistan, Swaziland, Cuba, Congo, North Korea, China, and Russia.

Press Freedom Committee Report February 24, 2009
Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009

Good news to lead the Committee's report: Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a reporter for El Diario del Noroeste in Mexico, was released from federal prison on January 29, pending an immigration hearing in March.