Tanzania - Government uses draconian law to ban newspaper for good

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the government's decision to permanently ban the privately-owned Swahili-language weekly newspaper Mawio and the brief detention of two of the newspaper's journalists. Neither the print nor online version of Mawio has been available since the ban was announced on 22 January. The police had arrested the two journalists, Jabir Idrissa and Simon Mkina, four days before, interrogated them at length and then released them on bail. Mawio was shut down (...)

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