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According to a statement of the Ugandan military, seven soldiers have been given jail sentences by a disciplinary committee for beating up journalists outside the United Nations Human rights office on Wednesday.
They were given sentences of between two to three months at a military detention facility.
The trial of the four privates, a lance corporal and two captains was not open to the public.
Earlier Uganda’s army chief apologised for the violence that left six reporters injured.
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The incident happened as the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine was delivering a petition over human rights abuses to the UN.
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