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Tanzania charges whistleblower website owner with obstructing police
Reuters | Published — Saturday 17 December 2016

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Maxence Melo Mubyazi, the founder of whistle-blowing website JamiiForums, appears in court in Dar es Salaam, on Friday. (AFP)

DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania on Friday charged the co-founder of a website where people can post comments on officials they believe are corrupt with offenses including obstructing a police investigation.
Maxence Melo Mubyazi was arrested on Tuesday and has since been held by police, who have also searched his office and home.
A charge sheet seen by Reuters showed that Mubyazi, 40, managing director and co-founder of JamiiForums website, has been charged with multiple counts of obstructing justice and running a website that is not registered in Tanzania.
At his court appearance on Friday in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam, he denied the charges and was returned to custody after an unsuccessful bail application.
According to the charge sheet, Mubyazi had been aware police were conducting a criminal investigation of the content on his website but, “with intent to obstruct investigation, did unlawfully fail to comply with an order of disclosure of data in his possession.”
The catchphrase of the JamiiForums website is “where we dare to talk openly.” Most users post their comments under pseudonyms.
The site’s managers have denied accusations by officials that it allows users to post fabrications and seditious content.
Last year the east African country enacted a tough cybercrimes law under which several people have been prosecuted for violations including insulting the president, which is punishable by up to three years in jail.
Rights activists have criticized the law, and the United States has canceled nearly $500 million of funding for the country to express its disapproval.
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has won some praise from western donors for an anti-corruption drive and cutting wasteful public spending. Opponents accuse him of undermining democracy by curbing dissent and stifling free speech.
Pressure group the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement this week Tanzania should investigate corruption allegations instead of “pressurising a website to violate its users’ trust and privacy.”

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Mbase1970 said:
Hao ndiyo wana uchungu zaidi ya wanahabari wa Tanzania maana huko ukiandika ubaya kuhusu mfalme ama rais kisago chake bora ya Magufuli naona ndiko tunakoelekea
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Ila wale wanasababu lukuki kuishi hivyo, wana tamaduni ambazo ukiruhusu Uhuru ni rahisi kuingia kwenye machafuko, na mauaji. Hivyo sio rahisi kwa mataifa yao ku-assimilate free speech na kuacha amani ikitawala. Lakini Sisi ni utawala unaendekeza uimla tu bila tija yoyote.
 
Wakati sheria hii inatungwa the One January Makamba aliwaamisha watu kitu tofauti na hata hapa JF mkamtetea , mkamponda Lissu alipokuwa anapambana Bungeni , Madhara ni haya , ila kukamatwa kwa Max kunaweza kusaidia Dunia kupiga kelele na kuokoa kutumbukia kwa Taifa katika anguko la Kidemokrasia .

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Hao watu wa serikali wawe smart kushughulikia mambo kwa maguvu kama unadeal na magaidi si sawa kabisa. Sisi vijana mnao tusumbua ni watoto wa nchi hii, tanzania ndiyo nchi yetu.....tunahaki kukosea, kufanikiwa, kuuliza, kupinga, kutetea, kupongeza....tuna haki kusemea lolote juu ya nchi yetu.
 
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