Scroll Top

– Reporter Ohemaa Sakyiwaa wins court appeal to file case of assault (Demo)

0
By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 3, 2018

Accra's Human Rights Court has uphelds journalist Ohemaa Sakyiwaa's right to file an assault case against her attack by a member of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Source: MEDIA FEED

HRNJ-Uganda / About Author
More posts by HRNJ-Uganda

Related Posts

Crimean Tatar activists: Detained, tortured, hit with unfounded terrorism charges (Demo)

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 12 July 2019. Russian authorities have brought unfounded terrorism charges against 24…

0
14 Jul 2019
– British correspondent expelled from Kenya without explanation (Demo)

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on…

0
08 Feb 2017
ADHRB strongly condemns Bahrain’s new legal campaign to attack activists on social media (Demo)

This statement was originally published on adhrb.org on 4 June 2019. In the last few weeks, the Bahraini government has…

0
05 Jun 2019
– Azerbaijani authorities continue to hound independent journalists (Demo)

RSF is dismayed to learn that local news website editor Elchin Ismayilli has joined the long list of journalists held…

0
23 Feb 2017
– Zimbabwe Election Watch – An IFEX Diary (Demo)

On 30 July, Zimbabweans went to the polls to elect the first post-Mugabe government. In the latest in a series…

0
30 Jul 2018
– Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line of fight against corruption (Demo)

On International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is highlighting the important role that journalists play in exposing…

0
12 Dec 2016
Under lockdown: States of perpetual emergency, the death of satire, and the return of the Lebanon protests (Demo)

The era of pandemic lockdowns continues to provide impetus for authoritarian states in MENA to restrict freedom of expression and…

0
05 Jun 2020
– New report: Stifling free speech in Russia, 2012-2018 (Demo)

Laws passed since Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency in May 2012 have dramatically strengthened the authorities' control over the…

0
10 Oct 2018
– Civil society groups express concern over the sale of Cambodia's last independent newspaper (Demo)

More than a dozen editors and reporters of Phnom Penh Post resigned over the alleged editorial interference by the paper's…

0
09 May 2018
Malaysian government urged to uphold election commitment by repealing sedition law (Demo)

The Centre for Independent Journalism expressed alarm over the continued use of the Sedition Act by the Malaysian government to…

0
15 Jan 2019
– West Africa: 30 media workers arrested in 38 days (Demo)

The 30 victims, made up of 15 journalists and 15 media technicians, were arrested, detained and/or assaulted in 10 separate…

0
23 Feb 2017
– Life after sentencing for MENA's political detainees: A December roundup (Demo)

In December, rights advocates – both free and imprisoned – as well as press freedom and human rights groups focused…

0
01 Jan 2018
Nicaraguan government withholds delivery of supplies to two newspapers (Demo)

IAPA condemned the administrative censorship imposed by the Nicaraguan government on La Prensa and El Nuevo Diario, by withholding the…

0
22 Jan 2019
Police brutally assault journalists covering university students’ protest (Demo)

This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on 25 October 2019. Over fifteen (15) journalists who were covering a press…

0
06 Nov 2019
Mauritanian bloggers detained for republishing story (Demo)

Two popular bloggers in Mauritania, Abderrahmane Weddady and Sheikh Ould Jiddou, have been detained for republishing and commenting on a…

0
05 Apr 2019