Media groups and other civil society organisations have asked government to re-open the Red Pepper and also release its directors and editors or face collective action by the media and human rights community in the country.
The groups' pronouncements at a joint media briefing in Kampala come two weeks after five Pepper Publications directors and three editors were detained.
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