The Committee to Protect Journalists supports a letter organized by PEN America, in collaboration with the Free Press, calling for journalist Mario Guevara’s release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.  

Guevara, who faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador, has been in law enforcement detention for more than 100 days since his June 14 arrest in connection with his livestreaming of law enforcement.

The letter—signed by over 100 prominent writers, journalists and scholars—urges the Department of Homeland Security to release Guevara without delay, calling Guevara’s prolonged detention and treatment “more commonly associated with authoritarianism than with a nation that has historically prided itself on upholding free speech.” 

Read the full timeline of events in Guevara’s case here. Read a copy of the letter here.