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Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has asserted growing control in recent months, ordering the arrests of politicians, activists and now a media shutdown. [Agencies]
Regional rights groups have condemned the Ugandan government over what they termed a severe "pattern of executive overreach," and demanded an end to the military-led shutdown of Nation Media Group outlets in Kampala and the detention of political activists
Addressing a press briefing at the International Commission Jurists (ICJ) headquarters in Karen, Nairobi, East Africa Law Society president Ramadan Abubakar, warned that the ongoing military occupation of independent media premises and the secret detention of legal figures was an affront to Uganda's rule of law.
Abubakar declared that the suppression of press freedom has escalated from a domestic dispute into a full-blown regional constitutional crisis.
