Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

<strong>Attacks</strong> on the Press in 20105 a.m., local journalists and the Ugandan Human Rights JournalistNetwork reported. The assailants apparently dragged him into anearby cassava field.Ssentongo, 29, died of his injuries before he could receive treatmentat Mulago Hospital. Colleagues said Ssentongo’s personal belongings,including cell phone and wallet, were left intact.Ssentongo presented a daily 7 a.m. news broadcast at Kireka-basedPrime Radio, the station’s news editor, Katangole Kiwanuka, told CPJ.Although Prime Radio is a Seventh-Day Adventist private station withno political leanings, Kiwanuka said, Ssentongo would occasionallydiscuss politics over the air. Ssentongo, a news presenter at PrimeRadio for two years, was also campaigning to become a Ggoma Sub-County council member on the ticket of the opposition DemocraticParty. He worked part-time for the Mukono High Court as well, localjournalists told CPJ.326