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> Kenya arrests Ugandan journalist for defaming
country's leader
> > Police in Kenya are holding Mr Hassan Isilow, a Ugandan journalist who > writes for Zimbabwe's Sunday Times over an alleged defamatory story he > wrote against President Mwai Kibaki. > Isilow is also a freelance journalist for Daily Monitor in Uganda. He > was held on Friday [31 March] by police in Busia on his way to Kenya > through Sofia border post. > The police in Kenya's Busia border district told Daily Monitor that the > scribe had written a malicious and defamatory story against President > Kibaki over the siege and closure of the Standard newspaper in Kenya at > the > beginning of March. > The police denied journalists access to talk to Isilow who was in a > General Service Unit Land Rover. > The suspect is a relative of the Kenyan inspector-general of police. > Kenyans on 2 March woke up to the shocking news of a government attack on > the Standard Group, in which KTN was put off air, the printing plant > disabled and tens of thousands of the newspaper's copies burnt. > And the country roundly condemned the raid on the media group, which > was > described as assault on press freedom. > > Source: Daily Monitor The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" |
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