TZ: Hali Halisi Publishers offices raided
Posted by Sarah Schewe on July 23, 2008 at 7:48 AM
The offices of Hali Halisi, the Tanzanian publishing group which prints MwanaHalisi, Mseto and Hali, three popular papers, were raided on 18 July. The Tanzanian security forces confiscated computers and other material and arrested the paper's editor.
Police went so far as to take editor and publisher, Saed Kubenea, to his home, where they continued their search and seizure.
MwanaHalisi has been critical of government corruption and the most audacious in naming names.
Earlier this year, two MwanaHalisi editors were attacked when acid was thrown on their eyes - rendering Kubenea temporarily blind. Additionally, in February, security officers raided the home of JamiiForums.com editors, seized computer hardware and detained them for a little over 48 hours.
East African Editors Forum chairman David Makali denounced the raids, saying, "The trend of attacking papers is becoming standard practice among East African states. It is cowardly for any government that has any pretence to democracy to raid a newspaper when it can use the right judicial process."
Source: EastAfricaPress.com
Police went so far as to take editor and publisher, Saed Kubenea, to his home, where they continued their search and seizure.
MwanaHalisi has been critical of government corruption and the most audacious in naming names.
Earlier this year, two MwanaHalisi editors were attacked when acid was thrown on their eyes - rendering Kubenea temporarily blind. Additionally, in February, security officers raided the home of JamiiForums.com editors, seized computer hardware and detained them for a little over 48 hours.
East African Editors Forum chairman David Makali denounced the raids, saying, "The trend of attacking papers is becoming standard practice among East African states. It is cowardly for any government that has any pretence to democracy to raid a newspaper when it can use the right judicial process."
Source: EastAfricaPress.com
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