Kampala, Uganda – was a home election, and, a lot of day, was peace, said Huzzaifa Mugwa, a small reporter that included voting for the first time.
But as the finished ballot day, Mepherwa said, a hidden man kicked the voting box. Police watched as people start shouting, and the men in the military take a broken man. People began to throw stones in battle. Then he says, soldiers began to beat people. Two additional war vehicles have shown, with many soldiers.
Mugwa was protected, so that the other side men came across.
“He took my record, standing and standing on the camera, lifting me on my hands,” dragged me to the van, “said two” journalists.
“They asked me if I worked for Bobi Wine,” said Mepherwa, referring to a contrary activist, artist and politician.
This continued six or seven hours, saying, until he was thrown into the car.
Violence against journalists, a long time and is often a reality, is as bad as Uganda heads in ordinary elections on January 2026
Emmanuel Kirunda, Uganda general secretary Association, said 33 reporters were attacked by armed for two days in March, when they covered the same election when Uzzazaaph was covered.
“This forces many media organizations to stop the election, beating [in] He says:
Daniel Kalaniki, the General General Manager in the Media Group in Uganda, is exported to X that organizational journalists will be deducted from the collection of election because they were attacked by armed soldiers.
Chris MaGuzi, a hospital spokesman Uganda Perense Forces – Uganda’s military spokesman – “said violent journalists in the elections that were successful between soldiers and media.
Mankazi says the political politician with Puratiform with National Unitity, a leading opposition by Bobi Wine, whose legal name Robert Kiuganyi Sseltamu is a responsibility to violence.
He says: “Has a radical nup, they have been hitting other people who think of their manager,” he said that the police would call the troops to call soldiers to call soldiers to return to soldiers.
Gen. The Mohoozi’s Mohozi, the President of the Defense Celebrations – and President Wower Museri Museveni’s Son – 2022 promised at the post office on X journalists “will be heard soon.”
Julius Macunguzi, Uganda Electoral Commission spokesman, said the key role in ensuring free and fair element, but the Commission could not ensure the safety of journalists.
The best thing, says, it’s a journalist to work as sides. He says: “The election commission is unable to quit brutality,” he said.
Violence against journalists in Uganda begins after decades. In 1944, Daud Mukabira, the Nayaffi Colorist, a Book of the British Colonial State of Blind Handbreadwhelming Policy With Framework, was arrested until he was tried. This media attacks and reporters continued with government after independence of organizations and the killing of educators during Milton Okete and Idi Amin Regimes.
Nothing shows that control and media will end now, even to determine the 2024 high court attacks on the Constitution, says Kirunda, a reporers of Uganda.
There is “a little or no will appear in the armed power to protect journalists,” he said.
Miracle Ibrahim, a reporter with Top TV, said that he lost his eye when they reported the election in February. Members of the worker is a anti-troatism, and someone struck him down in the face, said.
“I remember that I touched when I was beating and heard a hole instead of my eye,” he said, He said he had wet. She was taken to a local hospital and had surgery. Surprised, doctors told him that he would keep his eye and recover. He says, sometimes, feel hurt.
He says he will continue to work as a journalist because he loves his work.
He says: “We have no problems with the military.” We are not armed. “
The puppy also says he will stay in journalism, but only because there are few functions in other fields.
“If I have a good job,” she says, “I will definitely leave journalist,” she said. “Accident, Pain, Human Treatment by Authorities [who are] You have to protect me when I do my job, it’s not worth it. “
