Specials/Features

AUDIO: Editor of Uganda’s Red Pepper newspaper defends anti-gay list.

BigEyeUg3By

Uganda’s Red Pepper newspaper has published a list of 200 people it accuses of being gay, a day after President Yoweri Museveni signed a new anti-gay law. The tabloid daily on Tuesday printed photos of Ugandans it said were gay, as well as reporting stories of alleged homosexual actions. In 2011, prominent gay rights campaigner David Kato was bludgeoned to death at his home after a different newspaper published photos, names and addresses of gays in Uganda. So is the Red Pepper’s latest gay list in the public interest? Or is this an anti-gay media witch hunt? RFI’s Daniel Finnan spoke to Ben Byarabaha, the Red Pepper’s News Editor…

A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law. Photograph by: Rebecca Vassie , AP
A Ugandan reads a copy of the “Red Pepper” tabloid newspaper in Kampala Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law.
Photograph by: Rebecca Vassie , AP

Share.

Related Articles