Africa: In Defense of Uganda's Red Pepper

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CPJ has included eight staffers of the controversial Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper in its 2017 global census of imprisoned journalists. Some may disagree with that decision.

After all, Red Pepper arguably endangered the lives of LGBTQ Ugandans by splashing the names of "200 top homos" across its pages back in 2014 when President Yoweri Museveni toughened criminal penalties for gays.

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