Published on 3 May 2006
There is genuine press freedom in Tanzania, despite the extreme susceptibility of some politicians or businessmen with a weakness for litigation for defamation. The media sector is large and mostly responsible. One black spot is Zanzibar. The government on the semi-autonomous island often attacks the independent press, accusing it of being “a threat to national unity” at the first sign of criticism.
Scores of Chinese journalists, bloggers and human rights activists were arrested, put under house arrested or expelled from Beijing before and during the Olympic Games. The Games have now finished and we call for their release !
