{"id":5454,"date":"2018-08-31T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2018-08-31T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T08:42:16","slug":"nbs-tv-journalist-thumped-by-police-to-near-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/31\/nbs-tv-journalist-thumped-by-police-to-near-death\/","title":{"rendered":"NBS TV Journalist Thumped By Police to Near Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Mujunga, a cameraman with NBS TV today faced the wrath of security officers after he was beaten to near death as he covered Free Bobi Wine protest in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently admitted at Kampala Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joshua Mujunga, our very own branded video journalist has been beaten by security operatives while covering a riot that started in Kamwokya,&#8221; reads NBS TV&#8217;s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, security forces have been so brutal to journalists covering the Free Bobi Wine protests.<\/p>\n<p>This website understands that a few weeks ago, Reuters Photojournalist <a href=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/updf-officers-who-molested-journalists-to-be-arrested\/\">James Akena was badly beaten<\/a>\u00a0and arrested by UPDF officers.<\/p>\n<p>Other beaten journalists on that day were from The Observer, NTV, NBS TV and many other media houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Mujunga, a cameraman with NBS TV today faced the wrath of security officers after he was beaten to near death as he covered Free Bobi Wine protest in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb. He is currently admitted at Kampala Hospital. &#8220;Joshua Mujunga, our very own branded video journalist has been beaten by security operatives while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5455,"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":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","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=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}