Legal Analysis: Tanzania- Media Services Bill In May 2015, ARTICLE 19 reviewed the draft Tanzanian Media Services Bill, 2015 against international standards and best practices on freedom of expression, with particular reference to African regional human rights instruments. The Draft Media Services Bill, 2015 (‘the Draft Bill’) would come in the place of two existing pieces of legislation, the Newspapers Act and the Tanzania News Agency Act, both of which date to 1976. The former in particular is a controversial law which has been used to curtail freedom of expression in a number of instances, including through suspension of a number of newspapers whose coverage had angered the authorities. ARTICLE 19 has previously called for the Newspapers Act to be repealed and replaced with a progressive media law. Regrettably, our analysis finds that although the Media Services Bill would bring minor improvement in some a...
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