Uganda: Police Force Journalists to Disclose Sources

12 February 2019

Kampala — Police have demanded four of five editors for online publications who appeared at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) to reveal the sources behind stories on the Bank of Uganda deputy governor after they published photographs of his alleged buildings and bank accounts.

Spy Reports co-proprietor Raymond Wamala and the publication's former editor, Mr Bob Atwine, alongside Mr Andrew Irumba, who runs Spy Uganda, were interrogated yesterday at CID Headquarters Kibuli before their police bonds were extended to February 18.

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