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

A broad coalition of 105 human rights, media, and development organisations urged the president to invite the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions.

Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi who hosts KFM’s “Hot seat” and his co-host Bernard Tabaire were interrogated at the Naguru Special Investigation Unit.

Timothy Kalyegira was released on bail after pleading not guilty to a charge of having defamed President Yoweri Museveni.

The police raided and searched the premises of Prime General Supply, which prints the “Ggwanga” paper, hours after the paper’s offices were raided.

“The arrest of our colleagues is part of a wider campaign to harass journalists and silence voices who are critical of the government of president Museveni,” said HRNJ-Uganda.

In 2004, Supreme Court Judge J.N. Mulenga declared the law on “publishing false news” unconstitutional, saying it exerted an unacceptable chilling effect on freedom of expression.

The journalists were covering the eviction of Lubigi wetland encroachers carried out by police.

Goodluck Musinguzi has covered a number of controversial stories in recent weeks. No one has yet been arrested in connection with the attack.