Uganda: Red Pepper Editors Reveal Computer Passwords to Detectives

25 November 2017

Kampala — Editors of a local daily tabloid, the Red Pepper have been forced to reveal passwords of their computers to police detectives who are trying to establish the source of a Monday story about an alleged plot by Uganda to overthrow the Rwanda government.

A source intimated to Daily Monitor that the editors were on Thursday night driven from Nalufenya Detention facility in Jinja, where they are being incarcerated since Tuesday and forced them to open their computers and mails in the presence of police investigators.

...

AllAfrica publishes around 400 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.

Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.