The International Communications Forum is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Rwandan journalist killed in Uganda
The editor of the Inyenyeri News, Charles Ingabire was killed in a bar in Kampala on Wednesday 30 of November. The police reported that he was drinking in a bar near Makerere University when he was shot dead. Mr Ingabire was living in exile in Uganda, after he had to escape from Rwanda in 2007 because of political persecution. He was particularly critical against the Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and he accused his government agents to threaten his life. The Rwandan authorities deny any involvement in the murder, accusing the journalist to be a criminal in reality. However, several press freedom watchdogs have called Uganda to conduct transparent and accurate investigations in the case
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