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Global Media Body Condemns Trial of Monitor Journalists.

The Monitor (Uganda)

| August 27, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2008 AllAfrica Global Media. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Alfred Nyongesa Wandera

An international pro-journalists rights body has added voice to the condemnation of the rate at which Daily Monitor journalists are being harassed by state agencies leading to their prosecution on charges ranging from libel to forgery of state documents.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) based in New York, United States, on Tuesday posted its stand on the arrests of Daily Monitor's journalists including Managing Editor Daniel Kalinaki and Sunday Monitor Editor Henry Ochieng.

"We are alarmed by the growing crackdown on independent and critical reporting in general, and on Monitor in particular ahead of the elections," …

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