61ª Asamblea General The Westin Hotel Indianápolis, Indiana 7 al 11 de octubre de 2005

USA

WHEREAS

Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani (NBC affiliate WJAR-TV) endured four months of house arrest for refusing to reveal his confidential source in a case involving a corruption investigation

more than two dozen reporters in the United States have been subpoenaed or questioned within the last 18 months about their confidential sources in cases before the federal courts,

New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed by a federal judge for 85 days for refusing to testify in an investigation about conversations she had with a confidential source in the White House-CIA leak case

these subpoenas have been issued not only in criminal cases at the request of prosecutors but also in civil cases at the request of litigants such as Wen Ho Lee

Principle 3 of the Declaration of Chapultepec states, “No journalist may be forced to reveal his of her sources of information”

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IAPA RESOLVES

to restate its position that journalists should not be forced to reveal their sources

to restate its position that use of confidential sources is an essential tool — when used responsibly — of good journalism

to urge the U.S. government not to abandon its long tradition of protecting the freedom of journalists to quote confidential sources.