{"id":5361,"date":"2018-08-21T18:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2018-08-21T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:52:29","slug":"updf-officers-who-molested-journalists-to-be-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/updf-officers-who-molested-journalists-to-be-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF Officers Who Molested Journalists to Be Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDF officers who beat journalists that were covering Free Bobi Wine protests in Kampala yesterday will be arrested and punished accordingly; <a href=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/\">Uganda Mirror<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by UPDF spokesperson Brig Richard Karemire, he reveals that the CDF has already instructed the arrest of UPDF officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttention has been brought to the leadership of the UPDF about the unprofessional conduct of soldiers who molested some journalists while deployed on a Joint Operation in the capital city on Monday 20th August 2018,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further reads that; \u201cUPDF wishes to express its displeasure over such behaviour by those individuals, and as a result, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) has ordered for their arrest and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile expressing apologies and sympathies to the individuals on whom pain was inflicted, we wish to reiterate our strong commitment to maintain a strong partnership with the media fraternity in the course of executing all our core functions as laid out in the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This website understands that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> Photojournalist James Akena was badly beaten and arrested by UPDF officers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plPK8gSjSHQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other beaten journalists were from The Observer, NTV, NBS TV and many other media houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDF officers who beat journalists that were covering Free Bobi Wine protests in Kampala yesterday will be arrested and punished accordingly; Uganda Mirror reports. In a statement signed by UPDF spokesperson Brig Richard Karemire, he reveals that the CDF has already instructed the arrest of UPDF officers. \u201cAttention has been brought to the leadership of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}