Monitor Team
31 May 2011
Journalist Timothy Kalyegira has been arrested and remanded to Luzira Prison. Mr. Kalygeria is expected to appear in court on Wednesday morning to defend himself. He is accused of criminal libel. Kalyegira, who runs a website Uganda Record very critical of the NRM government, had reportedly gone to try and reclaim his passport held at Kiira Road Police station. The passport had been seized an earlier Police search of the veteran journalist’s Lusaka Zone One, Makindye Division home in August 2010.
Mr. Kalyegira was detained after the grade II magistrate at Buganda Road court ruled that it did not have the power to hear his case. Mr. Kalyegira had been represented by his lawyer Ladislaus Rwakafuzu.
On that occasion, Mr Kalyegira was questioned over reports published on his online newspaper that he doubted whether it was the Somali-based militants–al-Shabaab– that bombed and killed at least 76 people and injured several others in Kampala during the July 11, 2010 twin bombings.
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Journalist Timothy Kalyegira Arrested