do governo. Se pelo menos medidas amplas são tomadas para revogar todas as
leis ruins que negam a liberdade de imprensa no país, sera difícil vangloriar-se
como uma sociedade livre.

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Date: February 10, 2012
Person/ institution: Activists
Violation/ issue: Detained
16 human rights activists led by the
Legal and Human Rights Centre Director
Dr. Hellen Kijo Bisimba and the Tanzania
Women Journalists Association Director
Ananilea Nkya were on 9 February 2012
detained in Dar es Salaam for allegations
of illegal assembly and breach of peace.
According to the Police Commander, Kinondoni Special Zone, Charles Kenyela,
the activists were detained following security intel that they were heading for illegal assembly at the Muhimbili National
Hospital while carrying banners with
messages intended to disrupt peace. He
said this is a criminal offense and police
would not let that happen.

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Date: March 8, 2012
Person/ institution: Mwananchi
Communications (Ltd)
Violation/ issue: Legislation
A Dar-es-Salaam court has charged
two senior Editors, Absalom Kibanda of
Tanzania Daima, Theopil Makunga of
Mwananchi Communications (Ltd) and
Features Writer, Samson Mwigamba with
sedition. The charges are in connection
with an article authored by Mwigamba
and published last year in a local daily
tabloid, Tanzania Daima. The prosecution
read a new charge of sedition against
the three, substituting it from the previous one that was in reference to ‘inciting a mutiny’ through a newspaper
article. They were told that the previous




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