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FILE - Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, who represents Puerto Rico as a nonvoting member of Congress, smiles at a news conference about Puerto Rico statehood on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 29, 2019. Puerto Rico congresswoman Gonzalez-Colon beat Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in an upset during pro-statehood primary, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

CPJ, partners urge Puerto Rico to reject amendment restricting information access

The Committee to Protect Journalists, International Press Institute, and Reporters Without Borders, led a coalition of eight 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 information, one of the strongest in the United States. If…

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