Totally Missed It: Kenyan-Based Newspaper Banned In Tanzania, Likely Because Of Cartoon

I completely missed this brief report in the Washington Post about a Kenya-based newspaper being banned in nearby Tanzania. What is much more likely at actual issue here is a GADO cartoon critical of the Tanazanian government along with some prose work critical of the country's president.

The article points out that there are a lot of laws in Tanzania that outright restrict freedom of expression, and that the EastAfrican has been in operation regionally for more than 20 years. It looks like this case came up for the same reason that a lot of the anti-free speech laws seem to become an issue right now: the presumption that respect for public officials should be legally enforced.
 
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