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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (11868)	10/24/2003 1:49:44 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Police Beat Up Vision Scribes Over AGOA Girls ( New Vision/All Africa Global edia ) Kampala, Oct 24, 2003 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The custodians of the law turned into perpetrators of violence when they beat up three New Vision journalists at the Tristar Apparel factory in Bugolobi yesterday, reports Charles Musisi. Police arrested and handcuffed the journalists assigned to cover the strike by AGOA girls, confiscated a new digital camera belonging to the company and the scribes' notebooks. "Why are you taking the photographs? Who gave you permission?" the policemen asked. Albert Ayiga refused to surrender his camera. He passed it on to his colleague Solomon Muyita who handed it over to Raymond Mikah all in rapid succession. Mikah broke into a marathon with three security men in hot pursuit. They caught up with him near the Shell Bugolobi fuel filling station where he was grabbed by the waist and dragged to the factory as the policemen kicked and slapped him. Mikah was left limping and his mobile phone destroyed. Jinja Road Police commander Pius Mutabazi and Benjamin Namanya, the Mobile Police boss witnessed the incident. Other security men battered Muyita and Ondoga. "You are nothing. you can die and nothing is done about it. Do you know how many we have killed?" a plain-clothes security operative said. A crowd, which looked on in shock, was dispersed by the police. The three journalists were released from Jinja Road Police after the intervention of police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi . "They said they were acting on orders from above as they beat us," Muyita said. by Charles Musisi Copyright New Vision. Distributed by All Africa Global Media(AllAfrica.com) -0- KEYWORD: AGOA * end of story *