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Two prominent law professors, Gamaliel Mgongo Fimbo and Chris Maina Peter, are at one on the unconstitutionality of a provision granting powers on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to deny bail to accused persons in criminal proceedings.
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President John Magufuli yesterday pardoned 2,219 prisoners on the occasion of the 53rd Anniversary of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, marked at national level at the Jamhuri Stadium in the designated capital of Dodoma. Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Maj. Gen.
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Souce - The Guardian
John Magufuli says underemployment of inmates leads to drug use and homosexuality
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Tanzania: Iringa lawyer files petition seeking conjugal visits for married incarcerated people
A lawyer in Iringa has petitioned the High Court
Ethiopia : sleeping in turns
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Kumsa Gutteta spent more than twelve years behind bars in Ethiopia. Today, Director of the Centre for Justice, he describes a prison system marked by extreme overcrowding, years of armed conflict and the absence of alternatives to imprisonment.
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Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.