CPJ joined more than 30 groups to urge Iran to free jailed journalists, activists, and restore internet access

On January 14, the Committee to Protect Journalists, along with more than 30 press freedom and human rights organizations, called for urgent protections for journalists, human rights defenders, and others jailed for their writing, expression of opinion, or peaceful assembly amid nationwide protests and internet shutdown.

The signatory organizations called on Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those imprisoned for peaceful activism or expression, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, as well as journalists, women’s rights and human rights defenders, civil society activists, lawyers, writers, artists, students, labor and environmental activists, and members of religious and ethnic minorities.

The groups also urged authorities to fully restore internet and telecommunications services and to end nationwide information blackout censoring news coverage, enable repression, block essential and life-saving communications, and hinder documentation of human rights violations.

Read the full statement here.