Uganda: Court Halts Parliament Move on Scribes Without Degrees

18 January 2016

Kampala — The High Court has put on hold Parliament's plan to bar reporters without degrees from covering proceedings of the legislature and its committees.

Ms Beatrice Stella Atingu, the assistant registrar of the Civil Division of the High Court, granted the temporary injunction last Friday to protect the constitutional rights of the journalists currently covering the House.

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