Journalists charged with criminal trespass, released on bond

Mayuge, 23rd/February/2017; Two journalists, Dean Lubowa Saava and Fidel Arinaitwe, were on 23rd February 2017, arrested by Special Forces Command Unit for photographing the home of the head of the Shia Community in Uganda. The duo, from an Investigative media company Tazan Concept, were handed to police in Mayuge and charged with criminal trespass. They were released on police bond and ordered to report back on Saturday 25th February 2017. The head of the Shia Community, Omar Bongo Patur, is also the LCV chairperson ofMayuge district. The journalists told HRNJ-Uganda in an interview that they were following up a story of an alleged fraud by Omar Bongo Patur, who is accused by some family members of forging documents to become heir of his late father Sheikh Doctur Kadir Muwaya who was killed on 25th December 2014. "We decided to go to Mayuge to get Bongo's side of the story, we found guards from the Special Forces Command who called Bongo, we spoke to him using the guard's phone and he explained to us that he was not available", Dean Lubowa Saava told HRNJ-Uganda. On their way back, they took some pictures which prompted SFC guard, Jackson to intercept them. "He ordered us to delete the photos but we refused. We had an exchange with him that attracted the attention of local people who thought we were dangerous and wanted to lynch us. We were saved by the village local leader Bashir Kamiri," the journalists said. The SFC officers later handed them to police where they were charged with criminal trespass. The Officer in Charge of Criminal Investigations (OC CID), Mayuge Police Station, Nasser Mulimira told HRNJ-Uganda that, "the journalists were apprehended and brought to the police station, we managed the situation and the journalists were released on bond, they are coming back on Saturday and we hope the whole matter will be resolved on that day." The police should disregard the tramped up charges against journalists on the line of duty. We commend to local council chairman who made efforts to save the journalists from mob injustice that was looming on them. We are sure to stand with the journalists against such charges" Said the HRNJ-Uganda National Coordinator, Robert Ssempala.

Xulon Press Announces New Novel Sharing the Wonderful Message that We Are Not Defined by Our Past

  

Small Town Roads - New Christian Fiction from Amazon #1 Best-selling Author L. B. Johnson

All ages will relate to the character's triumphs and tragedies as they work on healing with hope, humor, and trust in God

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BROOKFIELD, Ill., Feb. 23, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ -- In L. B. Johnson's new book, Small Town Roads ($14.99, paperback, 9781498490719, $7.99, eBook, 9781498490726) two women, one a young police officer from a major urban area, and another, an elderly retired teacher living in a tiny rural farm town, become unexpected neighbors and unlikely friends. When an act of violence draws them together, that friendship becomes a testament to God's faith, a healing balm for grief, and hope for a future that is not always clear. 

In the tradition of Kent Harauf's bestselling Plainsong, L.B. Johnson has written a lyrical, meditative story that acknowledges the dangers and comforts of our world. Small Town Roads is a loving story about an old, slow place where the terrible loneliness of grief eases because ordinary people decide to be community. With this, her first fiction novel after two #1 best best-selling Memoirs, she reveals a writer that can be enjoyed today as well as looked for tomorrow.

Johnson says, "The book makes it clear that as much as we have become the person of our past, with a commitment to God and community our future is as open as the land of the heartland. All ages will relate to the character's triumphs and tragedies as they work on healing with hope, humor, and trust in God. The descriptive language makes this small town real in every respect."

L.B. Johnson is the author of the #1 Amazon Best Sellers, "The Book of Barkley, Love and Live through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever" and "Saving Grace - a Story of Adoption." She is the Silver winner of the 2015 Readers Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction, is a 2015 Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and was a featured Indie Author in Kirkus Review Magazine.

Xulon Press, a division of Salem Media Group, is the world's largest Christian self-publisher, with more than 12,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order Small Town Roads through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The book is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

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Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe: Urteil im Mörlheimer Mordprozess

Landau. 23. Februar 2017. Die beiden Angeklagten im Mörlheimer Mordprozess haben eine lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe erhalten, teilt das Landgericht in Landau (Pfalz / Rheinland-Pfalz) mit. Am Donnerstag-Vormittag fand die Urteilsverkündung in dem Strafverfahren wegen der Tötung einer 86 -jährigen Frau in Mörlheim bei Landau im großen Sitzungssaal des Landgerichts Landau in der Pfalz statt. Beide Angeklagten wurden zu lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe bei Feststellung der besonderen Schwere der Schuld verurteilt. Dies ist die schärfste Strafe, die das deutsche Strafrecht vorhält.

 

Die Richter und Schöffen der 1. Großen Strafkammer des Landgerichts Landau in der Pfalz folgten damit den Anträgen der Staatsanwaltschaft in vollem Umfang. Die Kammer zeigte sich davon überzeugt, dass beide Angeklagten sich als Mittäter gemeinschaftlich handelnd des Mordes in Tateinheit mit einem Raub mit Todesfolge schuldig gemacht haben. Verfahren gegen mutmaßliche weitere Mittäter, die sich zum Teil noch auf der Flucht befinden, werden folgen.