September 12, 2025 Tanzania: Iringa lawyer files petition seeking conjugal visits for married incarcerated people News Africa Social ties Tanzania A lawyer in Iringa has petitioned the High Court seeking to declare unconstitutional the legal provisions that prevent prison incarcerated people from enjoying conjugal visits with their legally married spouses, arguing that the restrictions infringe on fundamental constitutional rights.
July 16, 2018 Tanzania president says prisoners should be kicked and made to work 'day and night' News Africa Work Tanzania Souce - The Guardian John Magufuli says underemployment of inmates leads to drug use and homosexuality
June 26, 2017 Tanzania: more holes poked in the DPP's bail powers News Tanzania 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.
April 27, 2017 Tanzania: President frees over 2,000 from prison, Courtesy Union Amnesty News Tanzania 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.
