IFJ 18 February 2021
Uganda: FAJ condemns violent attacks against journalists
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the pan-African organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), notes with serious concern and condemns in the strongest terms, the continuing attacks on journalists and media freedom in Uganda by the security forces. Credit: UJU
Several journalists suffered grave bodily injuries and psychological trauma on February 17, when the military police pounced on them as they covered the hand over of a petition against the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, to the United Nations Human Rights Office in Kampala, by National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine.
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Daily Monitor’s Irene Abalo (centre) is helped by the publication’s acting managing editor (Dailies), Mr Tabu Butagira (right) and another collegue at International Diagnostic Centre where she got treatment after she was beaten by the military police yesterday. PHOTO | MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Journalist bodies have condemned continued the brutal attacks by the military on journalists as they do their work.
On Wednesday, as the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine presented a petition on gross human rights violations to the office of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights in Kololo, the military police descended on journalists battering them up indiscriminately.
Uganda: FAJ condemns violent attacks against journalists
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18 Feb 2021
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the pan-African organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), notes with serious concern and condemns in the strongest terms, the continuing attacks on journalists and media freedom in Uganda by the security forces.
Several journalists suffered grave bodily injuries and psychological trauma on February 17, when the military police pounced on them as they covered the handing over of a petition against the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, to the United Nations Human Rights Office in Kampala, by the National Unity Platform (NUP) leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also know as Bobi Wine.
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
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