CPJ Condemns the arrest of JF members!

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Mzee Mwanakijiji said:
If you think about it nina uhakika kuna mtu anajuta even to entertain the idea of arresting the boys kwa sababu kuna mtu ambaye alifikiria na kupanga kukamatwa kwao. I really would like to know who.. maana kama ana kibendera pembeni ya gari lake basi tuna matatizo.
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And what is worse, is the timing. Soon, hata kabla ya vumbi la kichaga halijashuka chini!

Mimi nahisi kilichosababisha ni zile picha za Kiteto. Jambazi mmoja alipoziona tu akakurupuka.

Hawa wakubwa ni lazima wakubali, hii ni tsunami isiyoweza kuzimwa. Usalama wao ni kufanya kazi zao vizuri kwa ajili ya wananchi kama walivyotumwa, basi. Hakuna tena njia nyingine.
 
Kalamu said:
And what is worse, is the timing. Soon, hata kabla ya vumbi la kichaga halijashuka chini!

Mimi nahisi kilichosababisha ni zile picha za Kiteto. Jambazi mmoja alipoziona tu akakurupuka.

Hawa wakubwa ni lazima wakubali, hii ni tsunami isiyoweza kuzimwa. Usalama wao ni kufanya kazi zao vizuri kwa ajili ya wananchi kama walivyotumwa, basi. Hakuna tena njia nyingine.
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basi najua wengi wenu mnatamani umeme ukatike bungeni !
 
Heeee! Kuna mtu alikuwa likizo ndefu au...........

Kwa nini taa zizimike wakati utamu humo bungeni ndio unazidi kushamiri?
 
Hivi hawa ndugu zetu habari zao zimeishia wapi? Kuna yeypte mwenye habari ya yaliyowasibu?
Tanzania detains popular Web site editors
New York, February 29, 2008—CPJ condemns the arbitrary arrest of two popular online editors without charge. The two were detained and interrogated for 24 hours in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on February 18, in what observers of the case say was a politically motivated attempt to shutter the site.

The two young editors, Maxence Mello and Mike Mushi, aged 21 and 18 respectively, host the extremely popular Jambo Forums, a public discussion site with more than 2,000 members and 6 million hits in February alone. Topics on the site cover everything from politics to culture to entertainment. Police confiscated three computers used to host their Web site, shutting down the site for five days while the equipment remained under police custody, Mello told CPJ.

According to Mello’s defense lawyer, Tundu Lissu, the police had no official charges against the editors and said the orders to arrest them had come from the president’s office. The Inspector General of Police, Said Mwema, stated in a press conference on February 20 in Dar es Salaam that they were arrested because they were suspected of criminal activity—which may include the “dissemination of wrong information” through the Jambo Forums Web site.

“The Tanzanian government must refrain from arresting journalists in an attempt to silence public dialogue,” said CPJ’s Executive Director Joel Simon. “Such arbitrary arrests set a dangerous precedent for the free dissemination of information online.”

Maxence Mello told CPJ that police arrested him at his college, the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, at 4 p.m. and then took him to his house where they lured then arrested his colleague, Mike Mushi. They were interrogated throughout the night over several postings on the site that criticized the government, and released at 5 p.m. the following day.

Local journalists said the forum had played a major role in exposing a suspect energy contract the former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa made with an American energy firm. The contract was published in full on the Jambo Forums site, Mello said. The former minister resigned on February 7 after a parliamentary probe into the incident. Four other suspected fraudulent contracts between the government and foreign companies are also currently posted on the Web site, Mello told CPJ.

Lissu said the two moderators were questioned specifically on this matter, and he as well as local journalists say they suspect the detention was directly tied to the posting of the contested energy contract. This kind of interrogation of journalists is part of a pattern of ongoing harassment of the local media, Lissu added.


© 2008 Committee to Protect Journalists. http://www.cpj.org E-mail: info@cpj.org
 
Karibu sana Kubwa Jinga
Pole sana na hilo Jina lako, linaanisha ukweli kabisaaaa
Kwanza hii thread ni ya kwenye maswali na si hapa kwenye siasa
Pili soma kwanza thread na ndipo uulize maswali KubwaJinga

Karibu JF, toa Hoja
 
Issue ya JF imesikika kimataifa kutoka AllAfrica.com mpaka Committee to Protect Journalists NYC

Detention of Two Website Editors Reportedly Tied to Posting of Contested Energy Contract

Committee to Protect Journalists (New York)

PRESS RELEASE
3 March 2008
Posted to the web 3 March 2008

CPJ condemns the arbitrary arrest of two popular online editors without charge. The two were detained and interrogated for 24 hours in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on February 18, in what observers of the case say was a politically motivated attempt to shutter the site.

The two young editors, Maxence Mello and Mike Mushi, aged 21 and 18 respectively, host the extremely popular Jambo Forums, a public discussion site with more than 2,000 members and 6 million hits in February alone. Topics on the site cover everything from politics to culture to entertainment. Police confiscated three computers used to host their Web site, shutting down the site for five days while the equipment remained under police custody, Mello told CPJ.

According to Mello's defense lawyer, Tundu Lissu, the police had no official charges against the editors and said the orders to arrest them had come from the president's office. The Inspector General of Police, Said Mwema, stated in a press conference on February 20 in Dar es Salaam that they were arrested because they were suspected of criminal activity-which may include the "dissemination of wrong information" through the Jambo Forums Web site.

"The Tanzanian government must refrain from arresting journalists in an attempt to silence public dialogue," said CPJ's Executive Director Joel Simon. "Such arbitrary arrests set a dangerous precedent for the free dissemination of information online."

Maxence Mello told CPJ that police arrested him at his college, the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, at 4 p.m. and then took him to his house where they lured then arrested his colleague, Mike Mushi. They were interrogated throughout the night over several postings on the site that criticized the government, and released at 5 p.m. the following day.

Local journalists said the forum had played a major role in exposing a suspect energy contract the former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa made with an American energy firm. The contract was published in full on the Jambo Forums site, Mello said. The former minister resigned on February 7 after a parliamentary probe into the incident. Four other suspected fraudulent contracts between the government and foreign companies are also currently posted on the Web site, Mello told CPJ.

Lissu said the two moderators were questioned specifically on this matter, and he as well as local journalists say they suspect the detention was directly tied to the posting of the contested energy contract. This kind of interrogation of journalists is part of a pattern of ongoing harassment of the local media, Lissu added.

CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.cpj.org
 
How so Mkuu? au uko katika weekend mood?

Issue ni kuwa watu wamekubali kazi, habari imetolewa lazima tuilete.
 
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The two young editors, Maxence Mello and Mike Mushi, aged 21 and 18 respectively, host the extremely popular Jambo Forums, a public discussion site with more than 2,000 members and 6 million hits in February alone. Topics on the site cover everything from politics to culture to entertainment.
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Mungu Ibariki Jambo Forums na Wajumbe Wake Wote, Wananchi wanyonge hupewa hope, walalahoi hupewa nguvu, na wanyonge waliolala huamshwa kuhusu taifa lao, na wananchi waliokata tamaaa ya maisha hupewa sababu ya kuendelea kuishi, yaani hapa Jambo Forums.

Mungu Ibariki Tanzania.
 
Nimeona,

Si rahisi ku keep tab na hapa unless unashinda na kulala hapa, which I am trying, apparently to no avail.

Unajua hata kwenye dancehall kama mziki uko kwenye chart sana tunasema forward (meaning reeeeeeeeeewind) selektaaaa.

Mod do the needful as appropriate.
 
Pundit said:
Nimeona,

Si rahisi ku keep tab na hapa unless unashinda na kulala hapa, which I am trying, apparently to no avail.

Unajua hata kwenye dancehall kama mziki uko kwenye chart sana tunasema forward (meaning reeeeeeeeeewind) selektaaaa.

Mod do the needful as appropriate.
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hamna ubaya mkuu ile hiyo excitement imenigusa hata mimi maana hii ni habari njema.. !
 
Mzee Mwanakijiji said:
hamna ubaya mkuu ile hiyo excitement imenigusa hata mimi maana hii ni habari njema.. !
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Huu ni muziki kwenye masikio kwa wale wanaopenda maendeleo ya TZ, ikiwa ni pamoja na uhuru wa kupashwa na kupasha habari. Hata na mimi niliipost tena hii article hapo awali. Lakini yote ni mema tu yanapofanyika kwa nia njema.
 
Kubwajinga said:
Huu ni muziki kwenye masikio kwa wale wanaopenda maendeleo ya TZ, ikiwa ni pamoja na uhuru wa kupashwa na kupasha habari. Hata na mimi niliipost tena hii article hapo awali. Lakini yote ni mema tu yanapofanyika kwa nia njema.
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Eee bwana nimependa jina lako ulivyoliambatanisha na hiyo picha. Hongera kwa ubunifu. Nimecheka sana
 
KJ... nakumbuka kule Boarding school tulikuwa na linjemba limoja lakini mambo yake yalilipatia jina hilo.. nadhani karibu shule zote zilikuwa na KJ.. LoL
 
Kubwajinga,
Nimeipenda picha yako. Mbona kama vile unafanana na nani hii yule?
 
safi sana kusoma kwanza ili uwe na maarifa utakuwa kwa 100% tofauti na wanaoingia kwa siku moja na kujifanya kujua zaidi ya kudandia hoja tu
 
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