Wave of police attacks on reporters during Uganda’s night-time Covid curfew

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the repeated attacks against journalists by police enforcing a night-time curfew imposed in Uganda to combat a surge in Covid-19 cases. The authorities must not use lockdown measures to restrict press freedom, RSF says. Patrick Bukenya, a journalist with privately-owned Radio Mityana FM 98.0, was returning home on the evening of 1 August when a police officer stopped him and

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