292 journalists killed in Iraq since 2003 – syndicate

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The number of Iraqi journalists who have been killed in Iraq since March 2003 reached 292, including cameramen and technicians, the president of the Syndicate of Journalists said on Thursday. “The statistics made by the syndicate pointed out that 18 journalists have been kidnapped and their fate still unknown,” Mu’ayad al-Lami told IraqiNews.com. “There are no journalists detained by the government’s forces, while there are three held by U.S. army for unknown reasons,” he explained. He called to speed up the approval of the protecting journalists’ law. SH (P) 1