Summary
In Uganda, Yowei Museveni has been president for 30 years. There was re-election vote on February, and opposition protest against election, Forum for Democratic Change(FDC) has called for a “defiance campaign” against him. But the government says if media support their protest against president, they will lose their license. More, a court ruled “defiance campaign” against the election result was illegal.
Media organizations was not allowed to live interview with opposition members or show their activity.
Opinion
In my opinion, media have to stand in the middle of government and civilians, or media cannot send not-filtered fact to civilian.
Especially election is the most important thing in government, I think.
But in case government banned media like this article, civilians has no way to know about government. If civilians cannot get the information about government, the country keeps being dictatorship.
To be honest, I don’t know if they civilians prefer to be democracy or dictatorship , but at least they should have chance to think about their government.
In Japan, at least we can get some information from media, though they may be filtered.
When I think about if we have no way to know what government is doing, I get so scared.