Iraqi war correspondents form committee to fight for rights
A group of Iraqi war correspondents formed their own association to defend their rights, which they said were being neglected.
BAGHDAD — A group of war correspondents announced May 20 the formation of an association to defend the rights of war correspondents and journalists.
Association leader Mustafa Latif told NRT TV on May 20, “We will announce the formation of the association officially June 1 during a conference that will be held in Baghdad.”
Iraqi journalists who covered the battles against the Islamic State (IS) in recent years created their own association independent of the two syndicates of journalists in Iraq — the Iraq Journalists Syndicate and the National Union of Iraqi Journalists — and of the institutions that defend journalistic freedom.
War correspondents who were sent to the battlefronts to cover battles against IS over the past four years have formed the National Military Information Association, which will defend the rights of wounded and slain journalists who were not treated fairly by their media corporations during war coverage.
