There will be no Daily Monitor or Red Pepper on the streets on Tuesday. Neither are Ugandans able to listen to Nation Media owned Kfm and Dembe fm radio stations. These media houses were today shut down. Journalists and human rights activists have today condemned the action by the government to close down two newspapers and […]
Come end of this year Daily Monitor’s managing editor, Daniel Kalinaki might not be working at the Namuwongo based media house. The information we have got from the Daily Monitor staff shows that the celebrated writer is eyeing a better job in the USA. The sources who claim to be knowing Kalinaki’s plans tells us […]
The minister of state for people with disability and elderly Suleiman Kyebakuza Madada has advised journalists to work together with the government if they are to get laws that are favorable to them. Addressing journalists during a half day briefing of MPS on Uganda’s media laws Madada said that government is willing to work with […]
A Kibaale district based journalist Ismail Kasooha has been ill-treated while covering a strike by rioting students of St. Adolf Secondary School. Kasooha, a freelance with the New Vision and Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio (KKCR) was reportedly hit with stones by rowdy students who also pelted stones at their teachers. The irate students staged a violent […]
Amosias Ayebazibwe, the correspondent of a daily tabloid, the Red Pepper publication based in Mbarara has been assaulted for covering a demolition of a house belonging to a window identified as Asiimwe. He was assaulted by a mob led by Jackline Nzaare, the wife of Mr. Cox Nyakairu, who is the Kabale Resident District Commissioner […]
Workers Representative in the next Parliament Topista Ssentongo has condemned the act of harassment among the workers by security agents which she said Government must do something to respect the rights of workers while on duty. Ssetongo’s out cry was in line with recent harassment and beating of Journalists while on duty which she said must not continue […]
A court in Mpigi district has dismissed a case of publishing false news against Central Broadcasting Service (CBS) FM journalist Yoweri Musisi. Musisi 37, a resident of Nabusanke, Nkozi Sub county Mpigi district was charged with publishing false news on 24th/March/2011 by Buwama Grade II magistrate court. Charge came after Musisi had been arrested and […]
Police has called upon Journalist to go for military training to enable them attain sustainable security and defense / protective skills which might come in handy during riot covering. Speaking at a public dialogue on the current situation of human rights defender in Jinja, the Jinja district police liaisons officer Abdullah Mpanuha says this will […]
Ugandan journalists have slapped a boycott on government activities over the 14 journalists who were physically attacked while covering the return of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye. More than a dozen of journalists have been physically attacked including being shot, intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and detained, restrictions imposed on their […]
HRNJ: The safety and security of journalists in Uganda have witnessed its greatest decline to the lowest ebb says, the Press Freedom Index (PFI) report 2011. The report released today indicates that 55 journalists were subjected to different forms of violence singling out particularly physical attacks on individual journalists to be on rise with 36 […]