Dar es Salaam — The one week incarceration of Maxence Melo, the founder of JamiiForums is causing such an outrage in social media because it represents something bigger than him and his online debate forum.
For right about a decade, JamiiForums has occupied a space in our politics so unique that the best way to explain it to a non-Tanzanian would be to draw comparisons with the work of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange or Aaron Swartz, among others.
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