By Unamed Source This is not about The Daily Monitor or the Red Pepper or Sejusa and his pen pals. But just to avoid any misunderstandings, I don’t believe it was an awesome thing the government did shutting down the newspapers for so long. I was not, however, going to attend any protests because, well, […]
Continue readingIn raiding two national newspapers and two radio stations on Monday, May 20, the Ugandan government launched its largest media crackdown yet. Not since the closure of several radio stations in one go in September 2009 has the Yoweri Museveni government, in power since 1986, engaged in this sort of egregious attack on media freedom. […]
Continue readingSeveral Ugandan media outlets re-opened on Thursday, May 30, 10 days after the government closed and placed them under 24-hour armed police guard. “…the Police has called off the cordon of the Monitor premises so that they resume their normal business as police continue with the search,” Mr Hillary Onek, the outgoing internal affairs minister, […]
Continue readingThe widely condemned closure of media houses in Uganda entered day nine on Tuesday, May 28, with dramatic scenes involving scuffles between the police and protesting journalists. Two WBS TV reporters, Mr Williams Ntege and Mr Mulindwa Mukasa, were arrested during the protest, which lasted about three hours outside the Daily Monitor head offices on […]
Continue readingDespite mounting condemnation, police on Thursday evening arrested five of several protestors who marched to the Daily Monitor offices in Kampala protesting the newspaper’s continued closure as security agents search for documents written by a senior military officer regarding presidential succession. Riot police, backed up by a water cannon, deployed as soon as the protestors […]
Continue readingThe government’s closure of two privately owned Ugandan dailies and two radio stations entered day three today, May 22, with one of the newspapers beating the odds to print what its editors dubbed the “Freedom Issue”. “Red Pepper is back where it started 12 years ago,” reads a post on the paper’s Facebook wall. “Printing […]
Continue readingBy Brenda Banura Day is Monday, May 20, 2013. Time check is 11:30 a.m. By then, most of the reporters and photojournalists have gone to the field. The Monitor Publications’ head office on Kampala’s Eighth Street is a strange sight. In the inside parking yard are six or four armed men in blue camouflage police […]
Continue readingTwo Ugandan daily newspapers and two radio stations remained closed and under armed guard for a second day Tuesday, May 21, as the police continued to comb their offices for the source and copies of documents related to the touchy question of presidential succession. Criticism of the government’s actions also mounted, with media advocacy groups […]
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