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Pakistan
Pakistan January 20, 2012
Friday, 20 January 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 to the hope of functioning democracy in Pakistan...

Mexico
OPC Condemns Yet Another Murder of a Mexican Journalist
Friday, 13 January 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 Nuevo Leon, near Monterrey. Mr. Querino Garza, who...

Philippines
Philippines January 10, 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 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 broadcast.

Turkey
OPC Assails Turkey's Crackdown on Media
Friday, 06 January 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 democratic society and its continued, focused arrests...

Russian Federation
OPC Expresses Outrage at the Murder of Khadzhimurad Kamalov
Monday, 19 December 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 December 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.

United States
OPC Letter to NYC Mayor Bloomberg
Wednesday, 16 November 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 approach the park.  

Russian Federation
OPC Applauds Russian Journalists Who Nominated Beketov
Wednesday, 02 November 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 punish the thugs who nearly beat Mr. Beketov to death...

United States
United States October 28, 2011
Friday, 28 October 2011

We write to protest what seems to be a systematic vendetta against James Risen of The New York Times, and by extension, an attempt by the Obama administration to undermine an essential element of freedom of the press.

Philippines
OPC Denounces Philippine Impunity for Journalists' Killers
Monday, 24 October 2011
It has been almost 2 years since the mass murder of 32 Filipino journalists and 25 civilians took place in Maguindanao. Two governments have said the investigation continues. Meanwhile, unopposed killing continues.