Uganda: AFP Journalist Pepper Sprayed While Documenting Besigye's Arrest in Uganda

Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda

ON 22 February 2016, photojournalist Isaac Kasamani of AFP - an international news agency - was pepper sprayed by police while taking pictures of police arresting former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential Candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye at his residence in Wakiso District. Another journalist, Abubaker Lubowa, survived narrowly, while other journalists were blocked from accessing the news scene.

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