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

Friends and family of Charles Ingabire submitted a request for police protection to hold the demonstration but they were repeatedly turned down.

The four journalists had taken photographs of the poor sanitary conditions at the prison when they were detained and their cameras confiscated.

Charles Ingabire, who edited the online newspaper “Inyenyeri”, was a vocal critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Unidentified assailants raided the “Eddoboozi” newspaper’s headquarters and made off with a large number of computers.

Journalists Stephen Komakech and Ronald Ssembuusi each received threats after reporting on corruption in the government.

After hearing rumours of the death of Dawit Isaak, an Swedish-Eritrean journalist held without charge for ten years, 31 members of IFEX are asking President Isaias Afewerki to confirm that he is still alive and if so, to release him from prison.

Prior to the UN summit of world leaders in Rio in June 2012 (Rio+20) to discuss the environment and sustainable development goals, 77 civil society organisations recommend the adoption of national laws on access to information, public participation and access to justice in the environment, a new UN convention on access to environmental information, and a UN Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Julius Ssenkandwa was struck in the head and injured when a stone was thrown at him while he was covering the arrest of opposition leader Kiiza Besigye.