Kampala; 22nd February 2018;Police officers based at the Uganda Police Headquarters in Naguru, Kampala have blocked journalists from covering the…
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By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2018) Featured Free Expression and The Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 19th/February/2018; The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mike Chibita has withdrawn charges of Abuse of Inferiors against a Rhino…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2018) Featured Free Expression and The Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 16th/February/2018; Following the continued disappearance of the New Vision journalist, Charles Etukuli, the Vision Group has run to…
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Gulu, 15th February 2018; The Resident District Commissioner (RDC) of Gulu District in Northern Uganda Capt. Santos Okot Lapolo on…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Featured Free Expression and The Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 06th/December/2017: The jailed five (5) Red Pepper Directors and three (3) senior Editors have been sent back on remand…
Kampala, 27th November 2017, After a week in detention at Nalufenya, a hardcore criminal detention center, the five Directors and…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 04th/ November/2017; Court in Kampala has ordered the police to produce to court or immediately release unconditionally two journalists…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 3rd/November/2017; Police at Kira Road police station arrested Francis Tumwekwasize’s, a Board member for HRNJ-Uganda and Diana Nandudu, HRNJ-Uganda’s…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law Press Freedom
Kanungu, 24th October, 2017; On Saturday 21st October 2017, Uganda’s Telecommunication regulator, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) shutdown a private…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law Press Freedom
Kampala, 16/ October/2017; Two Ugandan newspaper editors quizzed by the police’ Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) over age limit budget stories….