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PREFACE The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) presents the second volume of the compendium. This volume focuses on the legal and practical issues of concern facing the Civil Society [...]

Following the arrests and torture of some journalists in Uganda recently, many media rights groups have come out to denounce the growing harassment of the media and a “climate of [...]

Dar es Salaam. Rights groups said on Sunday, August 11, 2019, that they would not relent in their quest for justice on the arrest of freelance journalist Erick Kebendera. The Tanzania Editors [...]

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Non-governmental organizations in Uganda have been told to submit financial information including budgets and donor lists to the authorities, an official told Reuters on Thursday, in a move [...]

A prominent Ugandan academic has bared her breasts and screamed obscenities in protest as a magistrate sentenced her to 18 months’ prison on controversial charges of “harassing” President Yoweri Museveni. The [...]

ARTICLE 19 has called for the immediate release of investigative journalist Eric Kabendera, who was forcibly taken from his home in Mbweni on 29 July. His treatment raises serious concerns about the [...]

Police in Tanzania detained on Monday evening investigative journalist Erick Kabendera and have not allowed him to contact his lawyer, Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition reported on Tuesday. Kabendera, who [...]

On July 29, six plainclothes policemen forcefully removed journalist Erick Kabendera from his home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and took him into police custody. Police say Kabendera had failed to [...]

Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) has advised the government to come up with a Bill on the protection of data and privacy. Once the Bill [...]

Tanzania is in the spotlight over alleged kidnappings of critics of the government. According to human rights activists, those kidnapped are tortured and even killed. One of those abducted in [...]