Issue: Media freedom violation Date: 13 April 2023 Location: Busia No. of people affected: One Profession of affected person(s): Journalist Perpetrator(s): UPDF What happened Nation Media Group journalist David Awori is nursing injuries after Uganda Peoples Defence Force officers reportedly beat him on Wednesday in Busia town. Awori says that the soldiers, attached to the […]
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Issue: Media freedom violation Date: 11 April 2023 Location: Kampala No. of people affected: Two Profession of affected person(s): Journalist Perpetrator(s): Police What happened Police on Tuesday 11th April turned their wrath on journalists covering a press conference of the medical interns and senior house officers (SHOs) and sprayed them with pepper spray indiscriminately. Among […]
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African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has organised a virtual dialogue to commemorate the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists. The event scheduled to take place on 2 November 2021, is organised under the theme; “Combating impunity, enhancing freed and independent media in Uganda.” ACME will also release its 2020 report on […]
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In the wake of last week’s egregious assault of Ugandan journalists by the military, a number of commentators have taken issue with what they consider a parochial reaction by the media fraternity. These critics have scoffed at what they have taken to be a suggestion that journalists are special. Some of them have argued, rightly […]
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Julie Posetti, University of Oxford; Jackie Harrison, University of Sheffield, and Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University The insidious problem of online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline with potentially deadly consequences, a new global survey suggests. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of female respondents to our survey – taken by 1210 international media workers – […]
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