THREE editors of Uganda’s independent Monitor newspaper were charged in a Kampala magistrate’s court with sedition and publishing false news that could create “fear and alarm” on Thursday. The charges follow publication in the daily on Tuesday of a photograph of a naked woman having her pubic hair cut with scissors by a group of soldiers. The accompanying caption said the photograph was taken at the Ugandan army’s barracks in Gulu, northern Uganda. The army denied in a statement issued Wednesday that the photograph had been taken anywhere in Uganda, and said the combat fatigues worn by the soldiers in the photograph were not those used by the Ugandan army. The army’s statement said that “activities like rape as depicted in the picture cannot take place in any military barracks or for that matter in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces operational zones.”