Letters

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 20 partner organizations in a coalition statement Monday calling on Vietnamese authorities to release 2022 International Press Freedom Award winner Pham Doan Trang, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence on anti-state charges. The joint statement marks the fifth anniversary of Trang’s arrest, highlights the deterioration of her prison conditions,…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and the #KeepItOn coalition call on Taliban authorities to pledge no further internet shutdowns in Afghanistan and ensure that citizens have access to information and journalists can continue to do their jobs.  The joint statement issued on October 1 by 66 civil society groups strongly condemned the nationwide internet blackout…

The Committee to Protect Journalists, in a public comment submitted Monday, urges the Trump administration to drop proposed changes to the duration and application for foreign media visas, known as “I visas,” for journalists working in the United States. Currently, such visas can last for the period of a journalist’s employment with a recognized foreign…

The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 52 other civil society groups in calling on United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk to address systemic abuses occurring in Hong Kong’s prisons. The joint letter highlights serious violations documented in a recent report, including the use of solitary confinement lasting far beyond international limits,…

The Committee to Protect Journalists supports a letter organized by PEN America, in collaboration with the Free Press, calling for journalist Mario Guevara’s release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.   Guevara, who faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador, has been in law enforcement detention for more than 100 days since his June 14 arrest in…

On September 30, 2025, CPJ and 16 partner organizations wrote to leaders in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic to call for a full or partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The agreement sets out the EU’s legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation with Israel. The European Commission recently proposed suspending “certain…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined four press freedom groups—including Freedom of the Press Foundation, PEN America, and Reporters Without Borders—in an amicus brief supporting detained Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara’s habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Guevara faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador. The brief, filed by media…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), along with 17 press freedom, human rights organizations and media outlets, is urging the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Sherwan Sherwani, who remains unjustly imprisoned for his independent reporting and has been subjected to systematic judicial harassment. On August 20, 2025, the Erbil…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press led a coalition of 28 local and national press freedom, civil rights, human rights, and First Amendment organizations in a joint statement calling for journalist Mario Guevara’s immediate release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after 100 days in detention since his June 14 arrest. An Emmy-winning, Spanish-language reporter…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined more than 300 journalists from 25 countries—representing 62 international press freedom organizations—in a solidarity statement supporting IDL-Reporteros founder and director Gustavo Gorriti after Lima, Peru Mayor Rafael López Aliaga suggested the journalist should be killed at a September 9 press conference inaugurating the first 5 kilometers of the city’s Via Expresa Sur construction project. Gorriti,…