Tanzania civil society rattled by Bill that restricts freedoms
Ms Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, in Nairobi on July 23, 2015. She has expressed concern over a Bill in Tanzania that could restrict the rights to freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly and association. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Tanzania’s Parliament on June 21, 2019 began discussing a Bill which, if passed into law, would have dire implications for human rights in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said.
The Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3 of 2019) Bill, made public on June 19 and being debated under a “certificate of urgency” to speed up its passage, would restrict the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and association, including placing impermissible restrictions on civil society organisations and entrenching censorship, AI warns.
