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Spotlight: Digital Rights

Tanzania urged to make digitalisation process more accessible

19 March 2013
ARTICLE 19

ARTICLE 19 is concerned that the recent transition to digital broadcasting in Tanzania did not take into account the needs of viewers and broadcasters, and as a result many people are no longer able to watch TV.

Tanzania Highlights
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Tanzania Attacks

Chairman of Tanzania Editors Forum attacked outside home

Absalom Kibanda is in hospital for serious injuries, following an attack at the gate of his home. It is thought that the attack is related to Kibanda’s work as a journalist.

‎ARTICLE 19‎ 6 March 2013

Tanzania

Tanzanian journalist harassed, suspected of "selling state secrets"

Erick Kabendera has been harassed ever since he testified for the defence in a libel suit that Tanzanian businessman and Guardian owner Reginald Mengi brought against British blogger Sarah Hermitage.

‎Reporters Without Borders‎26 February 2013

Tanzania Censorship

Coalition calls for end to ban on Tanzanian newspaper

The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition has called for an end to the ban of a newspaper that began nearly six months ago. MwanaHalisi was banned under the Newspaper Act of 1976, which has been previously used to either suspend or shut down newspapers deemed critical of the government.

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎22 January 2013

Latest from Tanzania

Tanzanian radio journalist found dead in forest

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

Attacks 9 January 2013
Reports say police played key role in Tanzanian journalist's death

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

Attacks Censorship Free Expression & the Law 12 October 2012
Tanzanian journalist killed in political rally

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa, ARTICLE 19, Committee to Protect Journalists‎

Attacks Censorship Free Expression & the Law 5 September 2012
Authorities ban weekly indefinitely

‎Committee to Protect Journalists‎

Censorship 31 July 2012
Writer, senior editors face sedition charges

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

8 March 2012
Activists detained over illegal assembly

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

10 February 2012
Newspaper ordered to pay damages in defamation case

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

Free Expression & the Law 17 November 2011
ARTICLE 19 provides submission to Universal Periodic Review

‎ARTICLE 19‎

16 March 2011
Government threatens to deregister two newspapers

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

27 October 2010
One newspaper closed, another suspended

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

12 January 2010
Journalist attacked

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

31 December 2009
Police summon and interrogate freelance journalist

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

25 November 2009
Independent newspaper takes government to court over controversial media law

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

10 July 2009
Newspaper faces bankruptcy after being ordered to pay millions in damages

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

14 May 2009
Information minister accuses three newspapers of writing "defamatory" reports

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

18 February 2009
MEDIA MARCH FOR PRESS FREEDOM

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5 November 2008
Media organisations, journalists march for media freedom

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

31 October 2008
Push for reform gathers momentum as coalition submits media services bill

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

14 October 2008
Newspaper suspended for "seditious" article; security forces summon editor for questioning

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)‎

14 October 2008
Official defends recent raid on radical weekly harassed by government for over a year

‎World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)‎

31 July 2008
Police raid independent weekly's offices and editor's home

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

22 July 2008
Detention of two website editors reportedly tied to posting of contested energy contract

‎Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎

3 March 2008
Freedom of the Press 2007: Tanzania

‎Freedom House (Freedom House)‎

27 February 2008
Suspects held in newsroom attack

‎Committee to Protect Journalists‎

9 January 2008
Two editors of corruption-denouncing newspaper threatened with death, attacked with machetes, acid

‎Media Institute of Southern Africa‎

7 January 2008
ARTICLE 19 welcomes defamation proposals in media bill but urges reconsideration of regulatory moves

‎ARTICLE 19 (ARTICLE 19)‎

30 March 2007

At a glance

Tanzania

Most covered free expression issues in this country

Key reports and information

National Overview 2011: Tanzania (click to download pdf)

Development of print media is exemplary, yet country has region's lowest newspaper consumption rate

Media Institute of Southern Africa 22 June 2012
Press Freedom Index 2011-2012: Tanzania

Ranked 34th in annual press freedom index

Reporters Without Borders 26 January 2012

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