Media Watchdog Condemns Ugandan Paper for Exposing Gays
21 October 2010
A Ugandan man reads the headline of the Ugandan newspaper 'Rolling Stone' in Kampala, Uganda, 19 Oct 2010
The executive secretary of the country's Independent Media Council, Haruna Kanaah, says that he is shocked and dismayed by the newspaper's lack of journalistic ethics.
He says
Uganda Rolling Stone
, a weekly tabloid launched by a group of journalism graduates two months ago, is now being closely monitored.
"In Uganda, we have a journalism code of ethics, which is very clear," said Kanaah. "The media should be balanced, accurate and fair. Intruding into people's privacy, that is not journalism. It is witch-hunting."
Gay rights activists in Uganda say at least four people have been attacked since the publication of the article earlier this month.
Carrying the headline "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos," the article came out just days before the one year anniversary of the introduction of a controversial bill in parliament that would make homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda, punishable by death in some cases.
Although debate over the bill has been suspended, rights group say homophobia in the East African country has risen dramatically in the past year.
Suspected homosexuals have been named in recent articles published by a rival tabloid newspaper,
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