BEIRUT: Information Minister Walid Daouk vowed Tuesday to restore the rights of journalists, hoping in return that they would properly perform their duties toward society.
“You have briefed me about rights which journalists have lost like privileges regarding telephone and electricity bills along with parking spaces,” Daouk told a delegation from the Journalists Union which visited him at the ministry.
“I consider myself a lawyer for the union and all its members. I will defend them and seek to recover their rights on the condition that they perform their duty toward society by producing a proper media industry,” Daouk added.
The minister also promised to work on securing a piece of land on which the union’s headquarters would be built. Meanwhile, the union’s deputy president Saeed Nassereddine said that a journalist should be free from all pressures, especially in a country which suffers social, security and political upheavals.
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