Letters

CPJ has joined three press freedom groups in calling for the São Paulo state government to investigate the case of an unidentified police officer who harassed and pointed a rifle at TV Globo reporter Danielle Zampollo while she was covering an August 3 police operation in the Prainha community in the city of Guarujá, about 52 miles (84 kms) from São Paulo. Zampollo was in Prainha following…

Read the full letter by a coalition of more than 60 organizations urging members of Congress to support the Justice for Shireen Act (H.R. 3477). (Read the press release about the letter here.)

CPJ and partner organizations called on New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop charges against journalist Stephanie Keith.

CPJ joined human rights and press freedom organizations to call on Georgian President Zurabishvili to release journalist Nika Gvaramia.

CPJ joined more than 30 global organizations and media outlets calling for the release of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich from Russian custody.

CPJ and other rights groups call on Bangladesh to cease harassment of journalist Rozina Islam in a public letter.

CPJ and international press freedom and human rights organizations write to the Kyrgyz president to express alarm at the escalating repression of journalists and crackdown on press freedom.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the European External Action Service to pressure Moroccan authorities to release detained journalists and cease surveilling members of the press.

The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders send a joint letter to Twitter expressing concern over recent developments at the social media company.