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Uganda: Ten reporters injured by security forces while covering opposition leader’s return
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR1275.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 13/05/2011
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
At least 10 Ugandan and foreign journalists were physically attacked by soldiers yesterday while covering opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s return to Uganda from Kenya.
Abstract: At least 10 Ugandan and foreign journalists were physically attacked by soldiers yesterday while covering opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s return to Uganda from Kenya, where he was treated for injuries received when the security forces used force to disperse an opposition demonstration in Kampala in April.
Yesterday’s violence, which took place as President Yoweri Museveni was being sworn in for a fourth term, was the latest round in a campaign to gag the media that has been waged ever since...
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