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

Journalists covering opposition politicians are prone to constant and brutal attacks by Ugandan authorities who are clamping down hard on President Museveni’s political rivals.

Ugandan journalists temporarily detained for wanting to report on the conditions faced by university students in lockdown, were asked to inform police prior to working on stories of “such a nature”.

Journalist Tom Gwebayanga of Uganda’s New Vision group was assaulted and charged with spreading harmful propaganda for a story on the theft of money assigned to funding COVID-19 activities.

The Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda commends media for timely news on the Coronavirus while urging journalists to provide accurate information.

Over 15 journalists who were covering a press conference convened by the Guild Council leaders of Makerere University were teargassed and beaten by the police as they forced them out of the University campus.

Ugandan journalists from a diverse array of associations persisted in their mission to deliver a petition protesting police brutality despite the heavy handed tactics to prevent them from doing so.

Journalists are getting caught up in the fray as Ugandan authorities clamp down on gatherings by opposition politiicians.

A Member of Parliament from Aruu County in Uganda attacked Okot Geoffrey during a football match that the journalist was covering.