Kampala, 29th April 2014;Further hearing of a case in which a Vision Group Journalist, Mathias Ssebwato Kavubu was allegedly assaulted by a teacher at Old Kampala Secondary School, Ataremwa Justus, continued on Tuesday April 29 at the Law Development Centre Court, with the medical doctor giving his evidence. Dr. Ojara Santos who examined the journalist…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Radio Manager fired over hosting opposition politicians.
Hoima, 15th/April/2014; Spice FM radio in Hoima, Western Uganda has fired its station Manager, Geoffrey Magezi for hosting opposition politicians. Magezi, who has managed the station for over two years, was verbally dismissed on 15th/ April/2014. On Saturday, 12th April 2014, between 9:20pm- 10:30pm local time, the station hosted the former opposition leader of the…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, three cyclists arrested over violent assault of a journalist
Kampala, 14th/April/2014; police in Kitebi, Rubaga division, Kampala district have arrested three suspects in connection with assaulting a Vision Group journalist, Ddamba Ismael occasioning him grievous bodily harm. The particulars of the trio have not yet been released. Ddamba, a journalist with the Vision Group’s Bukedde Newspaper was attacked by a mob of angry commercial…
Media under continued attack; police raid radio stations in Western Uganda
Press Statement: For immediate release Media under continued attack; police raid radio stations in Western Uganda Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) is dismayed and deeply concerned with the heightened narrowing space for the media in Uganda. For the last 3 months, we have witnessed numerous arbitrary raids, threats and orders to media houses by…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Police rescue journalist from school teachers.
Mpigi, 07th/April/2014; Police in Mpigi district rescued a Vision Group journalist from three angry teachers of Lowell Girls’ School who mobbed him as he was covering a story of a fire break out at http://t.co/Cads8f79dAthe school on Saturday night, 05th/April/2014. The teachers were preventing the journalist from reporting about a fire outbreak in the school…