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

“Police failed to act professionally; they acted like farmers with guns. I can’t find any kind words for them today,” Nsubuga told HRNJ-Uganda after being discharged from hospital.

*Lwengo, 06th/April/2012; *The local government leadership for Lwengo district has banned the councillors from speaking to the media on any matter regarding the council without the approval of the district council speaker, while the district chairperson George Mutabaazi has threatened to arrest a journalist over a news story. The council resolution followed a news story […]

An open letter by 44 organisations calls Iraq’s proposed Information Technology Crimes law a threat to the fundamental freedoms necessary for the evolution of free speech and a vibrant press. The law will come to vote in the Iraqi Council of Representatives in April.

“The environment for front line journalists is getting more dangerous by the day at the hands of police,” said HRNJ-Uganda.

I can’t report to police, after all they are the ones attacking us,” one journalist told HRNJ-Uganda.

The former Kalangala district chairperson accused Ssembuusi of defamation after he reported a story about his alleged involvement in the disappearance of solar panels.

Freelance photographer Edward Echwalu and “Eddoboozi” newspaper photographer Anatoli Luswa were victims of police brutality.

The bi-partisan reversal came as a result of pressure and intense lobbying on the part of the Uganda Parliamentary Press Association.