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| A journalist takes a photos (selfie) while on a police truck shortly after their arrest on Monday |
By Our Correspondent, KAMPALA Uganda
A march by a section of members of Uganda Journalists Association (UJA)
was Monday dispersed by police officers.
Several members of the association
were arrested on Jinja Road while marching to police headquarters in Naguru
They are detained at the Central
Police Station in Kampala.
UJA President, Bashir Kazibwe is
one of the journalists who have been arrested.
The journalists were marching to the
Naguru to petition the leadership of the force to stop their officers who are
fond of brutalising media practitioners whenever they are deployed to cover
riots and demonstrations.
Last week, several journalists who
were covering protests at Makerere University were hospitalised after being
brutalised by police officers.
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| Police officers drag members of UJA to the cells centre at CPS |
Alex Esagala, a Daily Monitor photojournalist,
who was wearing a branded jacket showing he is a media person, was injured on
Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road after police fired two teargas canisters at him.
Geoffrey Twesigye, a photographer
with NTV Uganda, was another victim of police brutality.
Lawrence Kitata of Vision Group, was
arrested on and detained at Makerere University Police Post.
Kampala Metropolitan Police
spokesperson, Patrick Onyango last week blamed the journalists for distancing
themselves from police officers during riots and get caught up in the ensuing
fracas.
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