UNITED STATES
Midyear Meeting
Cartagena de índias, Colombia
March 16 - 19, 2007

WHEREAS
numerous journalists in the United States have been subpoenaed by prosecutors and required to testify in state and federal court—including the requirement that they name their confidential sources

WHEREAS
San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams faced 18 months in prison until their confidential source recently came forward

WHEREAS
Joshua Wolf, a blogger and videographer, remains in jail for refusing to turn over his videos and has now been in jail for refusing to comply with a subpoena for longer than any journalist in U.S. history

WHEREAS
principle 4 of the Declaration of Chapultepec says that “Freedom of expression and of the press are severely limited by murder, terrorism, kidnapping, intimidation, the unjust imprisonment of journalists, the destruction of facilities, violence of any kind and impunity for perpetrators. Such acts must be investigated promptly and punished harshly”

THE MIDYEAR MEETING OF THE IAPA RESOLVES

to condemn the use of subpoenas to compel testimony from journalists in the United States and call for the immediate release of Joshua Wolf from prison.