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

Ronald Ssembuusi has been convicted of criminal defamation for airing a story that implicates former District Chairman Daniel Kikoola in the theft of solar panels donated by the African Development Bank.

The proposed bill would mandate the National Security Service to monitor communications systems, newspapers and radio stations “in respect to security interest so as to prevent misuse by users.”

A senior police officer is on trial for arresting Associated Press journalist Mulindwa Mukasa in an allegedly inhumane and degrading way. Mukasa has asked the court to disqualify Tusingwire’s two lawyers because they work for the Attorney General’s office.

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is appalled by the endorsement, by the Somali Council of Ministers, of a repressive media bill that severely restricts media operations and content.

The chairman of Shabelle Media Network and the director of SkyFM have been detained in the National Intelligence and Security Agency’s underground prison, a place where suspected terrorists are being kept.

Dickson Mutebi was attacked by a group of angry residents while covering the story of two individuals who were accused of human sacrifice in Butenga village.

On 23 July 2014, an armed policeman in Hoima assaulted Geoffrey Tumwesigye, accusing him of recording a scuffle between policemen and angry butchers. Another journalist, Vincent Arinaitwe, claimed being shot at as he was covering the same incident, but narrowly survived.

Atim Brenda Kinyera, the host of a weekly program “Yab wangi” said that police officers arrested her at gunpoint and punched her, despite her informing them that she was a journalist who was heading to work at a nearby radio station