Police yesterday preferred unprecedented charges of treason, a capital offence punishable by death, against eight Red Pepper journalists who were arrested on Tuesday.
The journalists also face allegations of offensive communication and disturbing the peace of President Museveni, his brother Gen Salim Saleh and Security minister Henry Tumukunde.
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