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

UPDATE: Church compensates victims of attack (HRNJ-Uganda, 22 June 2012) (HRNJ-Uganda/IFEX) – Mukono, 21 May 2012 – Four journalists working in Mukono district were attacked on Sunday by members of Mount. Lebanon Church as they went to cover a news story about the controversy surrounding the church. The church is led by Pastor Samuel Landasa. […]

UPDATE: The president of IFEX member Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab, was re-arrested and sentenced to three years in prison on 16 August. Many other human rights defenders remain in prison, including BCHR’s founder Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, and his daughter, Zainab Al-Khawaja.

When Perez Rumanzi demanded to know what crime he had committed, police told him he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Attacks on journalists have escalated in the past six months despite the government’s commitment to adhere to international human rights principles, with 32 cases of attacks since the review by the UN Human Rights Council, says HRNJ-Uganda.

Mutale told HRNJ-Uganda that he was the only victim of the attack.

Bukedde Television reporter Rebecca Nakame was attacked on the orders of a special police constable.

(HRNJ-Uganda/IFEX) – Kampala, 20th/April/2012 – The police have quizzed a Daily Monitor journalist Risdel Kasasira over a recent interview with the coordinator of the banned opposition pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) Mathias Mpuuga. Kasasira, a political reporter appeared before the police’s criminal investigations directorate (CID) and was quizzed by the Media Crimes Department team […]

“Attacks on journalists are on the rise; some have since abandoned taking up assignments which involve reporting news stories about opposition politicians,” warned HRNJ-Uganda.