By John Stephen Katende

1^st Nov 2011:

File Photo: Rights abuses and terror in Uganda

The Uganda government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly to silence critical voices, UK based human rights organisation Amnesty International has said in a report to be released today.

Amnesty’s report (‘Stifling Dissent: Restrictions on the rights to (more…)

By George Murumba

31^st Oct 2011:

Injured and Blinded: Besigye being arrested in April

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President Kizza Besigye has been arrested again by police officers as he attempted to walk-to-work this morning.  The FDC leader was arrested at a roadblock mounted by security operatives on Nangobo-Kasangati road in Wakiso district soon after he left Kasangati residence to walk to his office at FDC headquarters in Najjanankumbi. (more…)

By George Murumba

31^st Oct 2011:

The aftermath of a NATO bomb in Libya

Buoyed by the devastating success of its jet fighter attacks on the late Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] has, upon prompting, refused to rule out a similar military intervention in Uganda or any other part of the world if the need to protect civilians from state brutality arises.

Reliable sources in London have told Uganda Correspondent that (more…)

By Our Online Team

31^st Oct 2011:

Tough talking British PM Cameron

The British Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP has threatened to withhold UK aid from countries that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality.  Mr. Cameron said he raised the issue with some of the states involved at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting [CHOGM] in Perth – Australia.

Human rights reform in the Commonwealth was one issue that leaders failed to reach agreement on at the summit.  Mr Cameron says those receiving UK aid should “adhere to proper human rights”. Ending the bans on homosexuality was one of the recommendations of an internal report into (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

31^st Oct 2011:

Protesting opposition chiefs sprayed with pink dye

Just as they had done during the first wave of the ‘walk-to-work’ protests in April this year, all the leaders of Uganda’s top opposition parties have once again agreed to lend their individual political weight to the new wave of ‘walk-to-work’ protests being planned by the pressure group Activists for Change to take place across the country.

The party presidents of (more…)