Alerts | Physical attack by authorities

Two journalists assaulted while covering implementation of lockdown

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Daily Monitor correspodent Perezi Rumanzi was assaulted by security personnel wheile covering a story on the lockdown in Ntungamo district. Another journalist, Dalton Iga, who works for Radio Simba in Mukono district, was injured in an attack by members of the local defence unit, gathering people’s response to the lockdown.

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