Tanzania: Demonstrations Are a Constitutional Right

opinion

During the one-party dictatorship, public demonstrations in this country were organised only by the sole political party, CCM, or TANU and ASP before it.

But, even after the introduction of multi-party democracy in the early 1990s, it was still not possible for any opposition political party to either hold a public rally or stage a demonstration without a licence from the police.

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