Tanzania

Human Rights in UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

Four Tanzanians sentenced to death for killing an albino man ...
3 November 2009

Amnesty International has welcomed the government's efforts to bring the killers to justice but has said that it deplores the use of the death penalty.

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Tanzania: Burundian refugees must not be intimidated to return ...
29 June 2009

The Tanzanian authorities must ensure that thousands of Burundian refugees who have been living in the Mtabila camp are not sent back to their country under coercion ...

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Burundian refugees in Tanzania intimidated into returning home ...
29 June 2009

Some refugees have had their homes set on fire and others have been threatened with arson, to coerce them into returning home.

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Tanzania: Further information: Harsh prison conditions/ Torture or ...
26 January 2005

The hunger strike by at least 15 death row prisoners in Ukonga maximum security prison in Dar es Salaam has come to an end. Amnesty International has now learnt ...

Urgent Action       AFR 56/002/2005

Tanzania: Harsh prison conditions/ Torture or Ill treatment ...
13 January 2005

On 3 January, at least 15 prisoners sentenced to death in the main Ukonga maximum security prison in the capital, Dar es Salaam, started a hunger strike protesting ...

Urgent Action       AFR 56/001/2005

Tanzania: Commission of Inquiry findings must be made public
14 June 2002

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: AFR 56/004/2002 (Public). News Service No: 101. 14 June 2002. Tanzania: Commission of ...

Press Release       AFR 56/004/2002

Tanzania: Human rights concerns relating to demonstrations in ...
28 January 2002

On 27 January 2001 armed police shot dead between 22 and 60 opposition demonstrators on Pemba island. This report describes the background to the human rights crisis ...

Report       AFR 56/001/2002