Fort Portal, 14th/June/2012; The High Court in Fort Portal has adjourned a case in which Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC) sued government for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. The suit was filed in November 2009.TLC sued the Attorney General for malicious prosecution and in relation to the 2008 arrest and trial of six TLC members, who…
HRNJ-UGANDA WELCOMES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW POLICE PRESS DEPARTMENT TO INVESTIGATE CASES COMMITTED AGAINST JOURNALISTS
Kampala, 06th/June/2012; the police have embarked on investigations into cases of violence committed against journalists by state agencies and other non state actors that happened in the year 2011, including 2 murders. This comes days after the Inspector General of Police; Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura came out and apologized to the media over the excesses…
JOURNALIST BRIEFLY DETAINED, ASSAULTED BY POLICE
Kampala, 06th/June/2012; the police have arrested and assaulted a New Vision Group journalist Sula Matovu and detained him for overran hour at Nakasero police post in Kampala. Matovu who works for Bukedde Television was covering a news story at Nakasero market related to the death of a vendor John Sseruyinda, alias Taata Mzee in April…
VISION GROUP JOURNALIST DRAGS ATTACKERS TO COURT.
Wakiso, 04th/June/2012; The Vision Group journalist Rebecca Nakame has dragged her attackers to court in Entebbe. The reporter with the government owned Bukedde Television accuses Katongole Isa aged 26 years, Mutagubya Jamil, 38, Ddungu Erias, 40years and others still at large of assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to section 236 of The Penal…
HRNJ-UGANDA AND MLDI WELCOME THE RELEASE OF JOURNALIST AND CALL FOR COMPENSATION
The Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) and Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) welcome the acquittal of Mega FM journalist, Otim Patrick and 14 others, by the High Court of Uganda of charges of treason and concealment of treason. Otim had been held since 2009 and it had taken almost three years for the…
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