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Uganda: FAJ condemns violent attacks against journalists Format 18 Feb 2021 The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the pan-African organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), notes with serious concern and condemns in the strongest terms, the continuing attacks on journalists and media freedom in Uganda by the security forces. Several journalists suffered grave bodily injuries and psychological trauma on February 17, when the military police pounced on them as they covered the handing over of a petition against the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, to the United Nations Human Rights Office in Kampala, by the National Unity Platform (NUP) leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also know as Bobi Wine. ....
Daily Monitor Thursday February 18 2021 Mr Timothy Murungi, a photojournalist with Vision Group, publisher of the New Vision newspaper sustained a head injury after the security assault . PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Summary Ms Irene Abalo, a reporter with NMG-Uganda, writhed at the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) Hospital on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala yesterday where she was rushed after soldiers injured her during a crackdown on journalists. Advertisement Dozens of soldiers yesterday beat up and injured about half-a-dozen journalists in Kampala in what the victims said was a brazen, unprovoked broad-day assault. The attack, which the Uganda Editors’ Guild board member, Mr Alex Atuhaire, described as “intentional organised move against journalists”, and ironically happened near the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) where Opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, went to deliver a petition ab ....
7 UPDF soldiers jailed for beating journalists February 18, 2021 Written by URN Seven soldiers who were part of a group that assaulted journalists yesterday near the United Nations offices have allegedly been charged and convicted for conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF). Seven journalists from different media houses are nursing wounds after military police personnel pounced on them and arbitrary beat them with batons as they covered National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi who was delivering a petition to the UN over increasing human rights violations in the country. Among those injured were NTV journalist, Jo ....
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Uganda Army says it will treat journalists it brutally attacked nation.co.ke - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nation.co.ke Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.