Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda)

BBC news correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga was arrested for allegedly filming Abim hospital without permission, and wanting to report “bad news all the time with bad intentions.”

Representatives of 19 of the most prominent freedom of expression organisations in Africa have been equipped with knowledge, skills and strategies needed to engage stakeholders on digital rights issues, following a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the African Freedom of Expression Exchange.

Civil society groups express concern over the potential for overbroad anti-extremism practices to limit free expression

Organised by the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), the workshop aims to deepen participants’ knowledge of online advocacy and develop strategies to create an Internet environment that fosters innovation, information sharing and development.

“I am paralyzed. All the information I have gathered for a very long time is lost. I do not know the motive of the attackers and what they intend to do with it.”

“We are worried by the increasing brutality of police towards journalists and the entire media fraternity, especially those assigned to cover the opposition camp,” says HRNJ-Uganda’s national coordinator, Robert Ssempala.

Uganda’s Independent Electoral Commission has suspended media houses from airing elections-voter mobilization campaign messages. The Commission contends that the messages mobilize Ugandans to vote for change at the expense of the ruling party.

IFEX members support the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s draft law to decriminalise libel and defamation of public officials