Uganda: New threats to press freedom from censorship and attack on journalist.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of press release in English by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 9 December

Reporters Without Borders today condemned renewed threats to press freedom in Uganda, in particular, a physical attack on a radio journalist while she was covering an opposition meeting and a recent ban on reporting the assets of leading government figures.

"The assets of political leaders are a matter of public interest which the press should be free to report, while the attack on a journalist was almost certainly carried out by activists of the ruling party," Reporters Without Borders said.

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