Gulu, 15th February 2018; The Resident District Commissioner (RDC) of Gulu District in Northern Uganda Capt. Santos Okot Lapolo on…
Criminal Defamation
By HRNJ-Uganda Defamation Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law
Lyantonde, 18th /September/ 2017; Sadat Waligo, a Correspondent of Red Pepper newspaper in Lyantonde District was acquitted of the charges of criminal…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Defamation Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law
Kampala, 22nd/aug/2017; The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has renewed bond for a Bukedde News Paper Editor Richard Kayiira and the…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2017) Defamation Featured Freedom of Expression & the Law
Kampala, 16th/ March/2017; The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has acquitted four journalists of criminal defamation and convicted the…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2016) Featured Free Expression and The Law
Kibuli, 10th /November/2016; Uganda police at Kibuli CID head quarters on 11th /November/2016 summoned a journalist Mabonga Darlington Kitts over…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2016) Featured Free Expression and The Law
Kibuli, 15th/September/2016; Two journalists have been interrogated by the Crime Investigations and Intelligence Department of the Uganda police over their…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2016) Featured Free Expression and The Law
Moroto, 1st /September/2016; Police in Moroto District, North Eastern Uganda summoned a freelance journalist, Teba Arukol, over a Facebook post…
By HRNJ-Uganda Featured Free Expression and The Law International Media News
This statement was originally published on NUSOJ on 15 August 2016. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns…
By HRNJ-Uganda Alerts(2016) Featured Free Expression and The Law
Lyantonde, 21st /July/ 2016; The Magistrates Court in Lyantonde has today, 21st /July 2016, set 28th /July 2016, as a…
By HRNJ-Uganda Featured Free Expression and The Law Stories
01 Jul: Regional court grants permission to 20 organizations to join criminal defamation case (Demo)
The struggle to strike off criminal defamation from East African statute books was on Tuesday 28 June 2016 enhanced by…