- Target:
- Uganda Police
- Region:
- Uganda
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
In 2012 freelance photographer Edward Echwalu was beaten by police as he covered the arrest of Dr. Kizza Besigye. Other journalist victims in the Besigye saga included Isaac Kasamani (Daily Monitor), William Ntege (WBS) and Nicholas Mwesigye (Red Pepper).
Several others have bean tortured by the Police in separate incidents – and early this year journalist Musaazi Namiti was manhandled for taking a photograph of a policemen on duty. He and his companions missed their flight and had to part with more money to travel after their release from Police cells.
Now Police have besieged premises of Daily Monitor and Red Pepper apparently for publishing stories on Gen. David Sejusa who is reportedly out of the country. Dembe FM and KFM, both managed by Nation Media Group, have been switched off air. Is Gen. Sejusa a rebel? How do journalists now know what to or not to cover?
Dear Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gen. Kale Kaihura, in this era, when journalists are being severely beaten and media houses are getting closed over what they do, we need a new direction. Kindly tell us what you want us to do. We hope that you, in turn, will allow us inform you about the role of a journalist in society.
We, the undersigned, call on the Uganda Police to stop the abuse of Press Freedom.
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The Call on the Uganda Police to stop the abuse of Press Freedom petition to Uganda Police was written by william odinga and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.