Your Excellency:
We are writing to express our grave concern at the detention of our esteemed fellow journalist Maziar Bahari and to request his immediate release. Mr. Bahari has been detained since June 21. No charges have been brought against him, and he has not been granted access to a lawyer. As one of the most impartial and committed journalists in his field, he has reported regularly over the past decade from the Middle East, principally from
We request that he be immediately released from custody and be allowed to resume his work. As a journalist, he was engaged in fulfilling his professional duties, reporting on critical events following the elections. At a minimum, he is entitled to the full protection of the laws of
As leading international journalists and editors who wish to ensure that our fellow professionals are permitted to do their work safely and freely, we ask you to consider this petition and return Mr. Bahari to his family, friends, and colleagues without further delay.
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, Al-Arabiya
Mansoor Al-Jamri,
Abdul
Walid Al-Omari, Al-Jazeera
Christiane Amanpour, CNN
Jamal Amer,
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker
Ali Anouzla, Al-
Sally Armstrong, Maclean's,
Abdul Bari Atwan, Al-Quds Al-Arabi
Omar Belhouchet,
Ahmed Reda Benchemsi, TelQuel and
Sihem Bensedrine,
Mehmet Ali Birand, CNN TURK
Taoufik Bouachrine, Akhbar el-Youm,
Ali
Tony Burman, Al-Jazeera English
Ian Buruma,
Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Confidencial,
Ying Chan,
Noam Chomsky,
Daniel Coronell,
Marites Danguilan Vitug, Newsbreak, The
Nicholas Dawes, Mail and Guardian,
Redi Direko, Radio 702,
Ibrahim Eissa,
Gamal
Lucio Flavio Pinto,
Yousri
Tom Friedman, The New York Times
Sami Ghaleb,
Murtada Ghali,
Hussein Abdel Ghani, Al-Jazeera
Mónica Gonzalez, CIPER,
Alma Guillermoprieto,
Lotfi Hajji, Al-Jazeera
Brian Hungwe,
Boubakir Jamai,
Josef Joffe, Die
Hisham Kassem, EOHR,
Rachid Khechana,
Elias Khoury,
Kyung-Ho Kim, Journalists Association of
Sami Kohen,
Ted
Mohamed Krichene, Al-Jazeera
Daoud Kuttab,
Andrei Lipsky,
Amadou Mahtar Ba, All
Peter Mansbridge, CBC,
Daniele Mastrogiacomo, La
Veran Matic, B92,
Wilf Mbanga, The Zimbabwean
Adam Michnik,
John Micklethwait, The Economist
Roula Mikkaeil,
Javier Moreno, El País
Caroline Mutoko, Kiss FM,
Adela Navarro Bello,
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
Carol Off, CBC,
Teodoro Petkoff, Tal Cual,
Alan Philps,
Cristian Tudor, Popescu,
Vladimir Pozner, Independent Journalist,
Antonia Rados, RTL
Sergio Ramírez,
Ahmed Rashid,
Neziha Rejiba,
Lloyd Robertson, CTV
Fernando Rodrigues, Folha de S. Paulo,
Pierre Rousselin, Le Figaro
Fabrice Rousselot, Libération
Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh,
Daniel Santoro,
Enrique Santos,
Fernando Savater,
Roberto Saviano,
Khaled Sergany,
Najam Sethi, Daily Times,
Sabam Siagian,
Sigrun Slapgard, Norwegian Broadcasting Organisation
Jon Snow, Channel 4,
John Stackhouse, The Globe and
Paul Steiger,
Ndey
Tarun Tejpal,
Manuel
Franco Venturini, Corriere della Sera,
Horacio Verbitsky, Página/12,
Lal Wickrematunge, Sunday Leader,
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
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