Kampala, 21st/August/2014; Hearing of a complaint in which, Gideon Tugume, a journalist formerly working with Capital Radio, accuses the Uganda Police Force of shooting and causing grave injuries to him while covering the return of Dr Kiiza Besigye from Nairobi in May 2011 has kicked off Thursday August 21, at the Uganda Human Rights Commission…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, two arrested over brutal assault of three journalists, four others remain at large.
Kampala, 20th/August/2014; Police in Uganda’s Capital Kampala have on 20th August, arrested two businessmen on charges of assaulting three journalists who were on duty on Monday 18th/Aug/2014 within the City Centre. The two, Ssembatya Edward and Mubiru Ibrahim are being detained at the Kikuubo police post. Journalists; Ronald Bukenya working with Joy FM radio, Zimula…
Catherine Anite: being a media lawyer in Uganda
Head of the Legal Department of Human Rights Network For Journalists Uganda Anite Cathy. http://www.mediadefence.org/stories/catherine-anite-being-media-lawyer-uganda
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Human Rights Commission adjourns journalist’s case
Kampala, 7th/August/2014, The Human Rights Commission has adjourned a case in which Gideon Tugume, a journalist previously working with Capital F.M sued the Attorney General for damages accruing from injuries he sustained after being allegedly shot by police in 2011. Tugume who was shot below his right knee and wounded by the body guard to…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Five arrested over violent assault of a journalist
Bukomansimbi, 6th/August/2014, five people have been arrested in Bukomansimbi over violent assault of a Vision Group journalist Dickson Mutebi. He was covering a story of residents of Butenga village in Butenga Sub County protesting the manner in which Police has handled matters in which one Augustine Ssebuliba and Norah Nazziwa are accused of Human sacrifice…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Police drags journalists’ leader to court over ‘obstruction’
Kampala, 30th/July/2014; a magistrate’s court at the Law Development Center at Makerere in Kampala has granted a cash bail to the Board Chairperson of the Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda, Mulindwa Mukasa in a case where he is allegedly accused of obstructing a police officer from arresting a suspect. The case was brought against him…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, armed policeman assaults a journalist, as another survives a gun shot
Hoima, 24th/July/2014; On 23/July/2014 an armed policeman in Hoima assaulted Geoffrey Tumwesigye a journalist working for Bunyoro television and Liberty radio, accusing him of recording a scuffle between policemen and angry butcher men at Hoima Central market in Western Uganda, while another journalist Vincent Arinaitwe of Liberty FM radio, claimed being shot at as he…
HRNJ-Uganda alert, Student pins former teacher for assaulting a journalist.
Kampala, 23rd July 2014; A former student of Old Kampala Senior Secondary School, Vanessa Nimukunda has pinned her former teacher, Ataremwa Justus in an assault case of a Vision Group Journalist, Mathias Ssebwato Kavubu. During her examination, Nimukunda told the Makerere-based Law Development Centre Court, presided over by Grade One Magistrate Shwanda Nkore, that on…