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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Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 17 2021
Journalists display injuries they sustained after security operatives attacked them while covering Bobi Wine on February 17, 2021
Summary
At least 10 journalists were left nursing injuries after military personnel attached to the Uganda People s Defence Forces (UPDF) assaulted them while covering Mr Kyagulanyi who was accompanied by relatives of Ugandans who have been abducted by security operatives during and after elections.
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Police and UPDF on Wednesday accused National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine of holding unlawful procession as they justified attack on journalists who were covering the former presidential candidate as he delivered his petition to the United Nation Human Rights offices in Kampala.
EC eases restrictions on media, use of camera during elections
January 10, 2021 Written by URN
The Electoral Commission (EC) has eased restrictions on use of cameras and other recording devices at polling stations on election day.
Earlier this week, the chairman of EC, Justice Simon Byabakama communicated new guidelines that would apply to the January 14 general election. Contentious among these was the directive that voters will not be allowed to remain at polling stations after voting to witness the vote counting and a ban of cameras at the polling stations.
The ban on cameras was strangely extended to journalists as well. Opposition political parties, however, questioned the legality of the directives w