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

Vision Group journalist Mathias Sebwato Kavub, was allegedly beaten until he was left unconscious by a teacher at Old Kampala Secondary School, when he tried to interview a student.

Press freedom groups join the Hong Kong Journalists Association to condemn the banning of Hong Kong reporters from covering Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Indonesia in early October.

In a second joint appeal, over 60 IFEX members and partners again call for the release of Moroccan journalist Ali Anouzla, after terrorism-related charges were laid against him.

Jude Okech Jorum has been detained since 1 October 2013. He was arrested along with six other individuals while he covered a story about a disagreement between two orphanage homes.

Samuel Kaweesi was surrounded by over 20 men as he followed up on a land dispute story in the Nakasongola district, central Uganda. Thus far, police have failed to investigate the attack.

A representative of Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda and the Legal Brains Trust said that if the Uganda Communications Commission switches off unregistered SIM-cards on 31 August, subscribers would suffer “irreparable harm…”

Civil society organisations, opposition political parties and members of parliament have launched a media campaign against the Public Order Management Bill (POMB), a controversial law passed on 6 August 2013 by parliament.

On 6 August 2013, the Ugandan Parliament passed the Public Order Management Bill, which criminalizes public meetings and human rights activities.