Uganda: Two summoned after reporting on BBC investigation

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The editor of one of Uganda’s biggest newspapers has been summoned for questioning by police after reporting findings from a BBC investigation into last year’s police killings in Kampala.

Tabu Butagira is the editor the Daily Monitor which ran the story on its front page on 31 May.

Tony Glencross, the managing director of Nation Media Group, which owns the newspaper, has also been summoned.

The two men are suspected of publishing false news, libel, and incitement.

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