Angelo Izama, one of Uganda's leading radio and print journalists, at his office in the Daily Monitor newspaper in Kampala, Uganda, on Sept. 21, 2011. Izama was the first person to test his country's fledgling Freedom of Information law after it passed in 2007. He asked for documents holding secrets upon which the fate of his nation now rests: multibillion-dollar contracts to explore and exploit recently discovered, massive oil reserves. Izama has since been arrested three times, each time for increasingly serious charges under Uganda's Media Crimes statutes. The timing of his arrests coincides with his legal battles for the release of the requested information. (AP Photo/Ronald Kaabuubi)
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