One year after Tanzania’s deadly 2025 election crackdown, impunity persists and civic space continues to shrink.

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Amnesty documented the use of counterterrorism laws to target government critics and opposition supporters, alongside arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment, and growing restrictions on media freedom.

The authorities must end the abuse of counterterrorism laws, protect freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and ensure accountability for human rights violations.

Justice cannot be delivered behind closed doors.

Tanzania: Authorities weaponize counterterrorism laws to restrict civic space amid pervasive impunity over violent election crackdown

Tanzanian authorities have failed to hold anyone accountable for the violence security forces inflicted on protesters, which left hundreds of people dead and thousands of others injured in the wake of the 2025 general election, Amnesty International said on the first anniversary of the...

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