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Uganda: Press Freedom Attacked by State Bodies

Institution of author: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

"On 16 October 2017, the editors of two popular Ugandan newspapers—the Daily Monitor and Red Pepper—were summoned to the Criminal Investigations Directorate in Kampala following the publication of stories revealing the allocation of a Ugandan Shillings 715 m (almost £150,000) budget for a planned 10-day cross-country consultation, to be undertaken by the Parliamentary Affairs Committee." (Abstract)