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Six journalists attacked in Uganda election violence

Opposition leader Kizza Besigye displays pre-marked ballot papers during a news conference Kampala. Election-rigging has been alleged in national and local polls. (AP/Stephen Wandera)

New York, February 24, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Ugandan police to conduct a thorough investigation and arrest all the perpetrators involved in the brutal attacks against six journalists on Wednesday during local elections in the capital, Kampala. Men believed to be supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party mayoral candidate for Kampala, attacked journalists covering the mayoral elections at the Kakeeka polling station in the capital, local journalists told CPJ. 

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February 24, 2011 4:36 PM ET

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