Press Release
Tanzania: Release Commission of Inquiry Report into Election-Related Killings to Kickstart Accountability Process
Withholding the Commission of Inquiry report from the public is a blow to transparency and heaps a further injustice on…
April 24, 2026
Press Release
Tanzania: Security Forces Used Unlawful Lethal Force in Election Protest Crackdown and ‘Took Away’ Dead Bodies
Tanzanian security forces used unnecessary or disproportionate force, including lethal force, to suppress election protests.
December 19, 2025
Press Release
Tanzania: Unlawful Killings and Other Human Rights Violations Continue Amid Internet and Electricity Blackouts
Tanzanian security forces have used lethal force to suppress and disperse post-election protests.
November 4, 2025
Press Release
Tanzania: Authorities Must Investigate Police Use of Force Against Election Day Protesters
At least two people have reportedly been killed during election day protests across Tanzania.
October 29, 2025
Press Release
Tanzania: Fears Mount Over Disappearance of Government Critic Humphrey Polepole
Tanzanian authorities must immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of Humphrey Polepole, a former ambassador to Cuba.
October 8, 2025
Press Release
Tanzania: Torture and Forcible Deportation of Kenyan and Ugandan Activists Must be Urgently Investigated
Tanzanian authorities must investigate the arbitrary arrest, torture, detention, and deportation of human rights defenders Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi.
May 27, 2025
Press Release
Tanzania: End Mass Arrests and Arbitrary Detentions of Political Opposition
The Tanzanian authorities must urgently halt the mass arrests and arbitrary detention of government critics.
August 12, 2024
Press Release
Tanzania: Private Business Complicit in Forced Evictions of Maasai Communities by Authorities
Private businesses have been complicit in forced evictions of Maasai Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands in Loliondo by Tanzanian…
August 7, 2024
Report
Business as Usual in Bloodied Land? Role of Businesses in Forced Evictions in Loliondo, Tanzania
This Amnesty International report calls on businesses operating in Loliondo in Tanzania to respect the human rights of the Maasai…
August 6, 2024
Press Release
Regional human rights bodies struggle to uphold rights amid political headwinds in Africa
For a second consecutive year, Amnesty International has documented how African governments are grossly undermining regional human rights bodies by…
October 20, 2020
Press Release
Protect Detainees at Risk of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Unclog Prisons and Release Prisoners of Conscience
Authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa must take urgent action to protect people in detention from COVID-19, including releasing prisoners of conscience,…
April 20, 2020
Press Release
Tanzania: 10 men arrested in Zanzibar for being ‘gay’
Ten men have been arrested on suspicion of being gay on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after police received a…
November 6, 2018