Police officers escorted JamiiForums co-founder Maxence Melo to remand after he appeared before Kisutu Resident Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam last week charged with obstructing an investigation and with failing to register the site with a co.tz domain name. PHOTO|FILE
What you need to know:
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.
The website has been a significant force in the unfolding of several high profile corruption scandals, the most notable one being the ‘Richmond scandal’ whose documents were widely circulated in the forum.
