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Vol 54 No 4

Published 15th February 2013


Tanzania

Daily pressure

Tanzanian journalist Erick Kabendera is complaining about what he calls ‘harassment’ of his elderly parents by the country’s immigration and security officials. In November, he gave testimony in the High Court in London in the Reginald Mengi libel case. Mengi sued Sarah Hermitage, whom his brother Benjamin Mengi had forced from her farm in Tanzania in 2008, for libel and lost. He was ordered to pay £1.2 million (US$1.94 mn.) in costs.

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