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Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Mr Timothy Murungi, a photojournalist with Vision Group, publisher of the New Vision newspaper sustained a head injury after the security assault . PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
Summary
Ms Irene Abalo, a reporter with NMG-Uganda, writhed at the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) Hospital on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala yesterday where she was rushed after soldiers injured her during a crackdown on journalists.
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Dozens of soldiers yesterday beat up and injured about half-a-dozen journalists in Kampala in what the victims said was a brazen, unprovoked broad-day assault.
The attack, which the Uganda Editors’ Guild board member, Mr Alex Atuhaire, described as “intentional organised move against journalists”, and ironically happened near the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) where Opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, went to deliver a petition about a spate of abduction