The 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 […]
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