Journalists To Demonstrate against Security Forces Beatings

The past couple of months have been a hard one for the journalists in Uganda. To bring the news to us fast, effective and reliably, they have undergone beatings and all sorts of inhumane treatment from our security forces. While trying to cover various stories that affect the state, they have been beaten, and some videos deleted/ camera’s confiscated from them. The Uganda Journalists Association has come up to stand against these acts of oppression.

The first step to this demonstration is a petition to the Speaker of Parliament Hon Rebecca Kadaga challenging the issue at hand. Their request is for the organ to stand and stop the police from the manhandling that they are apparently engaged in. The petition is to be delivered at 9 am this Friday. A day that has been declared a “Black Friday” in the day of the Ugandan Journalists.

“We are choosing the constitutional square as the starting point of this peaceful protest to the August house”. The President of the Association, Hajji Kazibwe Bashir Mbaziira mentioned.

Lets all stand together as Journalists to support this cause. See you There!