Earlier this week
...Star, Canada's largest newspaper, John Honderich, argue that there should be unlimited media freedom. However, Journalist Andrew Mwenda, the publisher of The Independent, a Ugandan magazine, though believing in the importance of media freedom, said that...
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...today had been weakened by internal divisions. "The State should have little business in regulating the media," said Andrew Mwenda, the managing editor of The Independent news magazine "Newspapers and radios should be subjected to free market forces and...
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...state wanted me to disappear without a trace, so I opened the car window and shouted at people along the road that ‘I was Andrew Mwenda being kidnapped by CMI.’ At this point, the security operatives pulled me back and this time handcuffed me so that I...
...John Njoroge, according to defense lawyer Bob Kasango. "We are concerned by this raid against The Independent and Andrew Mwenda," said CPJ's Africa Program Coordinator Tom Rhodes. "Ugandan authorities have a history of prosecuting Mwenda based on his...
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