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Freedom of Expression in Africa: 183 Killed by Security Agents in 3 Protests
A total of 183 deaths were recorded from July to December 2016 following clashes between protestors and security agents in three countries – Ethiopia,...
Uganda Free Expression and The Law
Uganda: Court Acquits Four Journalists of Criminal Defamation Charges
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 16, 2017.
The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has acquitted four journalists of criminal defamation...
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Uganda: Business Woman Jailed One Year for Assaulting Journalist
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 15, 2017.
A business woman in Kayunga District, Naluwa Rose, has been convicted and sentenced to a one...
Uganda Impunity
Police Officer Convicted of Assaulting a Television Journalist
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 10, 2017.
The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has found the former Division Police Commander...
Uganda Impunity
Uganda: Journalists Decry Lenient Sentence of Police Officer
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on March 10, 2017.
The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has found the former Division Police Commander...
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AFEX Urges Women Journalists to Assert Themselves despite Challenges
March 8 each year is celebrated as International Women’s Day (IWD). The day is set aside to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women...
Uganda Impunity
Uganda: Court Sets Judgment Date for Journalists’ Assault Case
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 3, 2017.
Five ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party youths continued to defend themselves before the...
Uganda Attacks
Uganda: Journalists Charged with Criminal Trespass, Released on Bond
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on February 23, 2017.
Two journalists, Dean Lubowa Saava and Fidel Arinaitwe, were on 23rd February 2017, arrested...
Uganda Free Expression and The Law
Uganda: Detained Reporter Released Without Charge
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on February 18, 2017
Police in Fort Portal has released without charge a Kabarole Research Centre (KRC) FM...
Uganda Attacks
Journalist Charged with abetting Terrorism for Taking Photographs of Soldiers
Joy Doreen Bbira, a Ugandan journalist working with KTN Television in Kenya, was on the evening of November 28, 2016 charged with ‘Abeting terrorism’...
Uganda Attacks
AFEX Welcomes Conviction of Prominent Politician over Assault of Female Journalist
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member, the Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) welcome the conviction of a...
Uganda Attacks
Ugandan Newspaper Broken into, Robbed of Computers
This statement was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on October 17, 2016.
Unknown assailants broke into the premises of the Observer Newspaper at Plot 1Tagore Crescent,...