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Alerts - Tanzania

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Tanzania

Writer, senior editors face sedition charges

MISA notes that Tanzania has a progressive and functioning media council that could have been engaged by the state in order to seek redress. That the charges are based on the Newspaper Act speaks to the need for continuous review and tangible reform of legislation that governs media operations in the country.

Tanzania

Activists detained over illegal assembly

Sixteen human rights activists were detained in Dar es Salaam on allegations of illegal assembly and breach of peace.

Tanzania

Newspaper ordered to pay damages in defamation case

The "RAI" newspaper and columnist Prince Bagenda have been fined approximately US$9,000 in total.

Tanzania

Government threatens to deregister two newspapers

The Tanzanian government has threatened to deregister the "Mwananchi" and "MwanaHalisi" newspapers for publishing materials with the intention of inciting chaos.

Tanzania

One newspaper closed, another suspended

The government has shut down the "Leo Tena" newspaper and suspended publication of the "Kulikoni" newspaper for 90 days.

Tanzania

Journalist attacked

Unidentified individuals broke into journalist Fredrick Katulanda's home, attacked him and demanded that he hand over a document he had received from a source.

Tanzania

Police summon and interrogate freelance journalist

Police in the Singida region interrogated freelance journalist Jumbe Ismailly for allegedly defaming Regional Commissioner Parseko Kone.

Tanzania

Independent newspaper takes government to court over controversial media law

After suffering a government ban for three months for allegedly tarnishing the name of the head of state and personal attacks that left its editor, Saed Kubenea, almost blind, the "Mwanahalisi" newspaper has now challenged the constitutionality of the Newspapers Act.

Tanzania

Newspaper faces bankruptcy after being ordered to pay millions in damages

The High Court of Tanzania has ordered the weekly newspaper "Mwanahalisi", as well as two printing companies to pay a sum of 3 billion Tanzania shilling

Tanzania

Information minister accuses three newspapers of writing "defamatory" reports

(MISA/IFEX) - On 13 February 2009, the Tanzanian minister of information, sports and culture ordered three newspapers to provide reasons why they published what he calls "defamatory" news reports. The newspapers in question are "Taifa Letu", "Sema Usikize" and "Taifa Tanzania".

Tanzania

Media organisations, journalists march for media freedom

(MISA/IFEX) - The Africa Press Agency reports that journalists from various media houses have demonstrated their displeasure at the suppression of press freedom in Tanzania during a protest march on 29 October 2008 in Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania

Push for reform gathers momentum as coalition submits media services bill

(MISA/IFEX) - On 8 October 2008, Tanzania's Freedom of Information Bill Coalition Campaign submitted a draft Media Services Bill to the Minister of Information and Culture, Hon. George Mkuchika, at his offices in the capital Dar es Salaam. The draft is part of civil society efforts to advocate for media policy changes in Tanzania.

Tanzania

Newspaper suspended for "seditious" article; security forces summon editor for questioning

(MISA/IFEX) - The Tanzanian government has suspended "Mwanahalisi" newspaper for its alleged practice of running stories with the intention of "inciting public hatred" against the president and contributing to misunderstanding within the president's family.

Tanzania

Official defends recent raid on radical weekly harassed by government for over a year

(WAN/IFEX) - The following is an excerpt from the 31 July 2008 RAP 21 Newsletter:

Tanzania

Police raid independent weekly's offices and editor's home

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns raids by the police on "Mwanahalisi", a weekly based in Dar es Salaam, and the home of its editor, Saeed Kubenea, on 18 July 2008. The head of the criminal investigation department said the raids came in response to a complaint by the National Bank of Commerce about the publication of bank data of some of its clients.

Tanzania

Detention of two website editors reportedly tied to posting of contested energy contract

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 29 February 2007 CPJ press release:

Tanzania

Suspects held in newsroom attack

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 8 January 2008 CPJ press release:

Tanzania

Two editors of corruption-denouncing newspaper threatened with death, attacked with machetes, acid

(MISA/IFEX) - On 5 January 2008, two editors of the weekly Kiswahili-language newspaper "Mwanahalisi" were attacked and beaten by three anonymous machete-wielding assailants in their media house in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania

ARTICLE 19 welcomes defamation proposals in media bill but urges reconsideration of regulatory moves

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is a 29 March 2007 ARTICLE 19 press release:

Tanzania

New law on access to information underway

(MISA/IFEX) - The government of Tanzania is planning to enact an omnibus media law that would guarantee access to information held by public institutions, said President Jakaya M. Kikwete on 2 October 2006.

Tanzania

Minister takes legal action against three journalists over critical article

(MISA/IFEX) - On 5 July 2006, Tanzania's minister of land and settlements development, John Magufuli, instituted criminal proceedings at Dodoma police station against two editors and one journalist of a privately-owned media house, Habari Corporation. The accused, Mr. John Bwire (chief editor), Mr. Muhingo Rweyemamu (editor), and Mr. Nephilitius Kyaruzi (journalist), were summoned only on 24 August to the Kijitonyama police station.

Tanzania

Journalist who appeared in film "Darwin's Nightmare" is threatened with deportation

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has criticised the Tanzanian government for threatening to deport a journalist who appeared in a documentary film the authorities say has damaged the country's economy and image.

Tanzania

Les autorités continuent de harceler l'ancien rédacteur en chef de l'hebdomadaire interdit "Dira"

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters sans frontières dénonce le harcèlement dont fait l'objet Ali Mohammed Nabwa, rédacteur en chef consultant de l'hebdomadaire privé "Fahamu" et ancien rédacteur en chef de l'hebdomadaire "Dira", suspendu depuis novembre 2003. Le journaliste a été une fois de plus déchu de sa nationalité tanzanienne par le département de l'Immigration du gouvernement semi-autonome de l'île de Zanzibar (Nord-Est), trois mois et demi après l'avoir obtenu du ministère tanzanien de l'Intérieur.

Tanzania

Authorities continue to harass banned weekly's former editor

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar's continuing harassment of veteran newspaper editor Ali Mohammed Nabwa, who has again been stripped of his Tanzanian nationality by the Zanzibar immigration department, just three and a half months after having it restored by the Tanzanian interior minister.

Tanzania

As part of celebrations to mark World Press Freedom Day, MISA-Tanzania makes case for greater information flow

(MISA/IFEX) - The following is a 2 May 2006 MISA-Tanzania press release:

Tanzania

Owner of new newspaper and journalists being sued for libel over stories on real estate deals

(MISA/IFEX) - Tanzanian media owner and prominent businessman Reginald Mengi and several of the journalists working in his media outlets have been slapped with a 100 billion shilling (approx. US$8.6 million) libel suit allegedly for defaming the executive chairperson of the Quality Group Limited, Yusuf Manji.

Tanzania

Four Kenyan journalists arrested, detained by immigration officers while covering court proceedings

(AFMF/IFEX) - On 24 March 2006, four Kenyan journalists were arrested and detained by Tanzanian immigration officers while covering court proceedings in Moshi town.

Tanzania

Government suspends two newspapers

(MISA/IFEX) - The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has suspended the opposition-aligned Kiswahili newspaper "Tanzania Daima" for three days for publishing a picture deemed offensive to President Benjamin Mkapa.

Tanzania

NGO banned from publishing studies about education system

(MISA/IFEX) - Tanzania's Ministry of Education and Culture has banned a non-governmental organisation (NGO), HakiElimu, from undertaking and publishing studies regarding Tanzania's education system. The ban became effective on September 8, 2005.

Tanzania

Press organisations, journalists and human rights group reject home affairs minister's apology for assault

(MISA/IFEX) - Home Affairs Minister Omar Ramadhani Mapuri has offered a public apology and retracted a 16 September 2005 statement in which he declared lawful the conduct of prison warders and prisoners accused of violating the human rights of a journalist and civilians.

Tanzania

Police committee to investigate beating of journalist, human rights activist and civilians

(MISA/IFEX) - The Tanzania police force has formed a six-person committee to investigate the beating of a journalist, a human rights activist and civilians by Ukonga prison guards in Dar es salaam on 10 September 2005.

Tanzania

Photographer, human-rights activist and civilians assaulted during eviction

(MISA/IFEX) - On 10 September 2005, Mpoki Bukuku, chief photographer for the "Sunday Citizen" newspaper, and Christopher Kidanka, information officer for the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHC), were brutally beaten by a group of prison guards in Ukonga, in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam. The prison guards also brutalised innocent civilians and severely injured some of them.

Tanzania

Private media free to operate in Zanzibar

(MISA/IFEX) - The government of Zanzibar has invited private electronic and print media to operate in the Isles in a bid to expand the coverage of economic, political and social issues.

Tanzania

Newspaper and publisher face crippling lawsuit

(MISA/IFEX) - The executive director of St. Mary's Schools, Reverend Gertrude Lwakatare, has demanded an apology, retraction and compensation of one billion Tanzania shillings (approx. US$884,000) from M/s. Free Media Limited, publishers of the newspaper "Tanzania Daima", and Tanzam Printers and Stationers for publishing an alleged defamatory story about her.

Tanzania

Zanzibar government bars critical journalist from working

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Tanzania

"Dira" newspaper to remain closed

(MISA/IFEX) - On 24 November 2004, the High Court of Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar, delivered its ruling on a long awaited case launched by the "Dira" newspaper management team to challenge the act used to close the only independent weekly in the Isles.

Tanzania

Veteran journalist finally granted citizenship

(MISA/IFEX) - The Ministry of Home Affairs has officially granted journalist Jenerali Twaha Ulimwengu citizenship by naturalisation.

Tanzania

ARTICLE 19 publishes analysis of government's Information and Broadcasting Policy

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is a 27 February 2004 ARTICLE 19 press release:

Tanzania

"Dira" newspaper warned against online publishing

(MISA/IFEX) - The Zanzibar government has threatened to take legal action against the editorial board of the banned weekly "Dira" if it attempts to publish the newspaper on the Internet.

Tanzania

Zanzibar government bans newspaper

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 24 November 2003 CPJ press release:

Tanzania

Journalists expelled, accreditation and travel documents confiscated

(MISA/IFEX) - On 10 October 2003, the Kome Kichangani village authority expelled a group of local and foreign journalists from the Lake Victoria island of Kome, in Tanzania's Mwanza region.

Tanzania

Journalist reaches agreement with government on citizenship issue

(MISA/IFEX) - On 25 June 2003, one day after his passport was confiscated, Ali Nabwa reached an agreement with the Immigration Department on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. Nabwa, editor of the weekly independent newspaper "Dira", agreed to surrender his Tanzanian citizenship and reapply for it as the Immigration Department had demanded in March.

Tanzania

Journalist's passport confiscated

(MISA/IFEX) - On 24 June 2003, Ali Nabwa's passport was confiscated by the Immigration Department on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. Nabwa is the editor of the weekly independent newspaper "Dira".

Tanzania

Journalist banned from working until he obtains a work permit

(MISA/IFEX) - On 16 September 2003, senior journalist Ali Nabwa was banned from working on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar.

Tanzania

Journalist assaulted, others expelled

Tanzania

Journalist refutes government charge of illegal citizenship

Tanzania

Photojournalist assaulted, equipment stolen

Tanzania

Photojournalist assaulted

Tanzania

Government warns "unethical" media

Tanzania

State-run broadcaster refuses to take disciplinary action against journalist

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