Journalist Joy Doreen Biira has been charged with abetting terrorism.
However, after being charged and she has been released with four others on police bond.
Earlier, KTN Television, current employers, of Joy Doreen Biira and one of the biggest stations in Kenya has vowed to fight what it has called violations of journalists’ rights.
“We must stand up against dictatorship and journalists’ violation #FreeJoyDoreen,” the station tweeted today.
“It’s so sad what I’ve witnessed today with my own eyes — part of the palace of the kingdom I’m from, the Rwenzururu Kingdom, burning down. It felt like watching your heritage deplete before my eyes…..” KTN journalist, Doreen Biira wrote on Facebook yesterday, reacting to the invasion of the Rwenzururu palace that left over 60 dead. Ms Biira posted and it is what has earned her to coolers curtsey of both Uganda police and the army.
In addition to the post, she shared with her followers photographs of some of what she had seen and this brought her on collision with security.
