By Gasasira,Sweden In press statement issued today by two prominent human rights bodies the Horn of Africa Human Rights and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative together with the Ugandan Civil Society immediately warned Ugandan Police to halt crackdown on prominent media institutions in Uganda. Today chillingly illustrates the limits of press freedoms and must [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden In the past few days, President Kagame’s notorious intelligence services have been squandering public funds from the country’s foreign donors and poor taxpayers into worthless activities aimed at defaming the international rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch in both international and local media outlets that are given huge ramp some of funds [...]
By Our Reporter Jean-Claude, a reader of Andrew Mwenda’s recent article asked Mwenda an interesting question: “Are you about to change loyalty from the guy who makes your ends meet? Or perhaps, ‘the guy’ doesn’t pay you on time these days?” The reader was reacting to Mwenda’s changed language in describing Rwanda and its ruler [...]
Gasasira, Sweden Sources close to relatives of the assassinated Catholic Bishops requested Umuvugizi .com to voice their concern of how up today they haven’t got Justice yet RPA high ranking military official who mercilessly and brutally murdered their relatives in the areas which were not war zones haven’t brought to justice apart from the earlier judicial [...]
By Ruganzu Vicent, Sydney. The exclusive and reliable information obtained by Umuvugizi can confirm that the so called above Institute of Legal Excellence is not only unfit for purpose but an academic disaster. This institute has two faculties, the Diploma in Legal Practice (DLP) and Diploma in Legislative Drafting (DLD) respectively. The investigation done by [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden The organization for the freedom of journalists( Reporters without borders) RSF) and another local organization in Congo(Journaliste en danger(JED) are concerned with decisions of the M23 rebels towards the media of Congo after the overrunning (Capture)of Goma. These organizations are also concerned with violence of M23 rebels towards civilians and threats towards [...]
Newly Elected Countries Should Do More to Respect Rights By Our Reporter Limited competition in elections for the United Nations Human Rights Council undermines membership standards set for the body by the UN General Assembly, Human Rights Watch, FORUM-ASIA, and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project said yesterday . Although the General Assembly [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden. Today the Rwandan High Court has sentenced the leader of the Opposition Party FDU Inkigi to 8 years , she was found guilty of genocide denial and terrorism . At last she has been sentenced after several postponements, hesitations by Kagame courts since her arrest and charged with these crimes. This was [...]
By Our Agencies “Mr. Kabila, you promised to combat impunity” Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalist in Danger (JED), gave a news conference in Kinshasa today, the eve of the start of a Francophonie summit in the same city, in order to present a report on the state of freedom of information [...]
Mbabazi, Kigali Umuvugizi has concluded an investigation that underline the disappearing of around 15 professional prostitutes in Kigali city, within only one month. This killing spree and people responsible are still unknown from the public. Umuvugizi spoke to some of these prostitutes, who testified that these operations of killing them are methodic in nature; and [...]