Uganda

Police in Kampala arrested a bodaboda taxi cyclist on charges of assaulting Vision Group journalist Ismail Ddamba, back in April 2014. He is being detained at Kitebi police station in Rubaga division, Kampala district, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda. The suspect, identified as Buyondo Huzair, aged 35 years, a resident of Sserwadda zone in Kabowa, Rubaga division...

After three years of proceedings marked by many irregularities, a court in the southern district of Kalangala has found journalist Ronald Ssembuusi guilty of criminal defamation for mentioning an allegation linking former Kalangala district chairman Daniel Kikoola to the theft of solar panels. The case has revived Reporters Without Borders’ concern about media freedom in Uganda. Ssembuusi is...

A Central Broadcasting Service (CBS) radio journalist, Ronald Ssembuusi has been convicted of criminal defamation by Kalangala Grade 1 Magistrate for voicing a story on November 17, 2011 implicating the former District Chairman Daniel Kikoola in the theft of solar panels donated by the African Development Bank, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda. “A statement...

A security guard, Kemba Azizi (26), has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for assaulting a Red Pepper journalist, Solomon Hamala, in Uganda, the Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda has reported. "Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done. I therefore find the accused guilty of assault contrary to Section 236 of the Penal Code Act and since he has been remorseful...

Police in Kampala are hunting for a suspect in the death of a Vision Group photo journalist, Mubiru Royce Kakebe, who reportedly died from a tetanus attack from injuries he sustained from Percy Nanyondo in January this year as he carried on with his work. Sources in the police told Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) that Kakebe reported an assault at a police post in...

Investigators in Kabale must thoroughly investigate an arson attack May 13 on the home of Goodluck Musinguzi, contributor to the state-owned daily, New Vision, New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Someone poured gasoline on the house and set it on fire while Musinguzi, his wife, and his newborn child were inside, he told CPJ. Musinguzi, a...

Ten Ugandan and foreign journalists were physically attacked by soldiers on May 12 while covering opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s return to Uganda from Kenya, where he was treated for injuries received when the security forces used force to disperse an opposition demonstration in Kampala in April, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The violence, which...

Police in Buwama, Mpigi district (80 km south of Kampala), have arrested and detained Central Broadcasting Service (CBS FM) correspondent Yoweri Musisi over a story which alleged increased lawlessness in the area. CBS FM is owned by the Buganda Kingdom. Musisi was arrested on March 19 by armed policemen at Buwama trading centre on the orders of the officer in charge of the station, Abbey Ngaho...

An attack was carried out against the press covering an event recently organised by opposition party candidates in Uganda. The forces attacked about a dozen journalists covering a protest rally in Jinja, eastern Uganda, organised by three opposition parties on March 11, New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists. The police and...

A presenter at Masaka-based Top Radio, Ssozi Lyazi Ssekimpi, is reported to have been suspended over a talk show which discussed electoral malpractice witnessed during recent presidential and parliamentary elections, according to Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRNJ-Uganda). Ssekimpi, who joined Top Radio four years ago, has been working as an editor and presenter of the weekly talk show...