Here's a story we published at CTV.ca on the Blake Lambert case. He's the Canadian journalist punted from Uganda for pissing off the government there.

An excerpt:

Blake Lambert spent his first days in Africa as a reluctant newsmaker, briefly making international headlines as he and other western journalists found themselves trapped between warring militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Three years later and Lambert's final days on the continent have him again in the news, once more caught between warring forces far beyond his control.

This time the combatants are journalists pushing the limits of free speech and a nervous government increasingly ready to use harsh measures to control its media image.

Last Thursday, government authorities in Uganda expelled the 34-year-old Canadian journalist from their country.

Lambert was returning from a short holiday in South Africa when security men took him into an isolation room at Uganda's international airport in Entebbe and confiscated his passport and cellphone.

"Then they stamped my passport with a big X in red. They never told me why they were putting me back on the plane. I asked them but they didn't say anything," Lambert said.

He was deported to Nairobi where eventually he caught a flight to Toronto.

Lambert called the situation ridiculous.

"If I was thrown out because of my reporting, because someone thought I brought this on myself, that is ridiculous," he said. "I'm even-handed. I report things as I see them."

Sure enough, sources say Lambert's critical reporting for CBC radio, along with publications like The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Times, had infuriated Ugandan officials still smarting from a recent flood of bad publicity.

This also stuck in my mind:

The country's most famous journalist, Andrew Mwenda, political editor of The Monitor newspaper and host of the hugely popular Andrew Mwenda Live, faces charges of "Sedition" because of his critical reports. He is on bail, but faces 75 years in prison if convicted.

Several other journalists face similar charges.

While the deportation made headlines in the national newspapers, at popular local radio station KfM, a one-hour special was devoted to discussing Lambert's deportation.

Even the state broadcaster UBC held a one-hour television debate in which journalists angrily challenged government spokesmen.

"Here it comes," said Wafula Oguttu, founder of the independent daily newspaper The Monitor and now an opposition party spokesman. "The white journalists, they just get deported. But us, they will be sending us to Luzira," referring to Uganda's notorious maximum security penitentiary.