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Article

21 Oct 2010

Author:
Alisha Ryu, Voice of America

Media watchdog condemns Ugandan paper for exposing gays

A Ugandan media watchdog is condemning a local newspaper, which published a story that featured the names, photographs, and contact details of 100 alleged homosexuals and called for them to be hanged...[The Executive secretary of the country's Independent Media Council] says Uganda Rolling Stone...is now being closely monitored...Gay rights activists...say at least four people have been attacked since the publication of the article...homosexuality...is illegal in Uganda...Suspected homosexuals have been named...by a rival tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper. But Ugandans say this is the first time…a media organization has deliberately sought to incite public violence against gays...Uganda Rolling Stone...claimed that homosexuals...were raiding schools, aiming to recruit a million children by 2012. Many gay men and women are said to have gone into hiding...The managing editor of the [newspaper], Giles Muhame, has defended the newspaper's radical anti-gay stance, saying that journalists had a duty to expose…"evil in the Ugandan society."...