Tanzania: Unlawful killings and other human rights violations continue amid internet and electricity blackouts

In reaction to the progressing fractional web shutdown by Tanzanian specialists taking after the October 29 common races, Absolution International’s Agent Chief for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda said:

“For near to a week presently, numerous individuals in Tanzania have endured across the nation web and power shutdowns. Acquittal Worldwide is especially frightened by reports that in the midst of the power outages, security powers have utilized over the top constrain to smother and scatter progressing post-election dissents, coming about in the passings and wounds of dissidents. “This is the third time in less than a year that Tanzanian specialists have turn to an web bar to quiet disagreeing voices. Specialists must promptly abstain from smothering challenges and instep regard, ensure, and encourage the right to tranquil gathering. They must quickly and unequivocally discharge all those captured exclusively for working out their right to serene assembly.”

“Authorities ought to instantly, completely, freely, fair-mindedly, straightforwardly and successfully explore all killings by security specialists and bring to equity in reasonable trials those suspected of being capable. Specialists must too give casualties and their families with get to to equity and viable cures. “The specialists must too permit both nearby and worldwide media to openly report on the human rights circumstance in the nation and abstain from confining get to to data, both online and offline counting by quickly reestablishing web get to and get to to fundamental open administrations. The progressing limitations are making it troublesome to confirm data, and to record election-related human rights violations.” Tanzanians went to the surveys on 29 October in an decision overwhelmed by the administering Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, with the two primary resistance presidential candidates, Tundu Lissu from Chadema (Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo or the Party for Vote based system and Advance), and Luhaga Mpina from ACT-Wazalendo, banned from standing. Confirmed recordings appeared nonconformists on the roads of Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Tunduma, Tanga, and Mwanza among other towns. Ahead of the races, Pardon Universal issued a briefing sketching out how the Tanzanian specialists have escalates their suppression of tranquil disagree against the resistance, writers, human rights guards, activists and respectful society organizations.

Authorities forced across the nation web limitations on decision day disturbing portable information administrations and blocking get to to social media stages over major networks. On Monday 3 November, inhabitants detailed fractional resumption in a few cities.

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/tanzania-unlawful-killings-and-other-human-rights-violations-continue-amid-internet-and-electricity-blackouts/

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