Letters

The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 32 organizations in calling on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to use a planned visit to China next year to push for the release of Jimmy Lai, who was convicted in Hong Kong on Monday of national security offenses. Lai, a 78-year-old British citizen and founder of the…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined eight partner organizations in a joint advocacy statement calling on Vietnam’s government to release journalist Pham Doan Trang. Trang, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for her critical reporting, received CPJ’s 2022 International Press Freedom Award for her courage in the face of persecution. The joint statement published on December 12 was timed…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined Espacio OSC, a coalition of Mexican civil society organizations, in a joint statement expressing deep concern over irregularities in the implementation of basic protection measures for journalists by the Mexican Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. In 2012, the federal mechanism was created in…

Update: The law was signed into law on December 14. The Committee to Protect Journalists, International Press Institute, and Reporters Without Borders, led a coalition of 15 press freedom organizations in a joint statement calling for the rejection of Puerto Rico’s Senate Bill 63, which would severely limit the territory’s constitutional right to access public…

December 8, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists has written to heads of government across Asia ahead of International Human Rights Day on December 10, urging them to immediately free reporters imprisoned for their work. As of December 1, Asia holds at least 106 journalists behind bars, with China (50), Myanmar (27), and Vietnam (16) the…

Nairobi, December 5, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 29 other human rights organizations in urging member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to “take action to prevent further abuses” in Tanzania, in the wake of a brutal government crackdown following October 29 elections. In their letter, the organizations note…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the International Press Institute and six other press freedom and human rights organizations in the seventh year of a joint press freedom mission to Ankara, Turkey. The delegation also included representatives from the ARTICLE 19 Europe, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa as…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine partner organizations on November 19 urged Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Milind Bharambe to investigate death threats made against Indian journalist and Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub and her father, and to provide immediate protection for both. In a joint letter, the signatories welcomed the police’s swift registration of…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 28 other press freedom organizations on Wednesday in a joint statement to express concerns over the climate of harassment, stigmatization, and threats faced by journalists and media outlets in Honduras ahead of the country’s November 30 general election. The statement warns that high-ranking military authorities attacks, judicial harassment, digital…

The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined an amicus brief, authored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), in support of the Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s visa and deportation policies in connection with First Amendment rights for non-citizens. The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, which publishes Stanford University’s…