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Mikhail
Beketov is lucky to be alive, although I'm sure there are days when he
doesn't think so. On November 13, 2008, the environmental reporter who
campaigned against a highway that would have destroyed a forest in Khimki, a
town outside
Committee to Protect Journalists
Uganda
2010
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Full, normal broadcasting of the Ugandan Central Broadcasting Service
(CBS)--owned by Uganda's powerful traditional Buganda
kingdom--resumed
Monday after nearly 14 months of silence.
While CBS staff welcomed their return to work, many recounted a tough year and
questioned the nature of the station's re-opening.
More than a year has passed since the government-influenced
Broadcasting Council summarily closed
the popular Central Broadcasting Service, or CBS. The council closed the
station in September 2009 as riots were erupting in
response to the government's decision to block the traditional Buganda king
from attending a youth celebration north of the capital, Kampala. Its continued closure bodes ill for independent news coverage of February's presidential election.
Nairobi, September 13, 2010--Motorcycle taxi drivers beat freelance journalist Paul Kiggundu to death Saturday evening, local journalists told CPJ. The drivers, commonly known as boda-boda, attacked Kiggundu while he was filming some of them demolishing a house in a town outside of Kalisizio, southwest Uganda.
With surprise and relief, Ugandan journalists, who routinely face the police's "media crimes" unit, welcomed a partial victory for press freedom on Wednesday. The country's constitutional court had ruled that criminal sedition was unconstitutional. Even so, there was a consensus that more legal press battles lie ahead.
New York, August 26, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Wednesday's ruling by Uganda's Constitutional Court declaring the country's criminal sedition offense, which has been used to prosecute journalists, unconstitutional.
Nairobi, August 4, 2010—Police accused the online editor of The Ugandan Record, Timothy Kalyegira, of sedition Tuesday and searched his house today, Kalyegira told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The Media Offences Department commissioner of police, Simon Kuteesa, interrogated Kalyegira about two online articles that speculated as to whether the Ugandan government were involved in the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala.
Ugandan President Museveni urged his peers at this week's African Union summit to unite in the battle against terrorism in the
aftermath of the terrible 7/11 bombings in Kampala. Security measures pursued by
Ugandan authorities after the
twin bombings, however, have left some Ugandans and other East African
residents wary. East African journalists were among those detained by Ugandan security
forces following the bombing. Uganda’s parliament, meanwhile, quickly passed a telephone
surveillance bill.
Since the beginning of Somalia’s Islamist extremist insurgency, the Al-Shabaab militia has targeted journalists and others that it considers opposed to its goals. Al-Shabaab is now reaching beyond Somalia’s borders, as the group claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks Sunday evening that rocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and left an estimated 74 people dead, including radio presenter Stephen Tinkamanyire.
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