Tanzania tells UN rights review it has cut court backlogs and widened legal aid
Tanzania told a UN human rights review in Geneva on Thursday that legal aid had reached 7.9 million people. Constitution and Legal Affairs Minister Abdallah Ulega said court backlogs had fallen and political rallies were allowed again.
Tanzania presented its human rights record to the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, Mwananchi reported. Constitution and Legal Affairs Minister Abdallah Ulega led the presentation. He spoke at the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), run by the UN Human Rights Council. The government said 7.9 million citizens had received legal aid. Courts on the mainland had cut their case backlog from about 10% to 5%, the government said. The average time to finish a case dropped from 95 days to 66. In Zanzibar, the backlog fell from 43% to 18%, according to the presentation. Technology was another focus. The government said digital courts and online hearings had concluded more than 170,000 cases. It said 66 prisons are now linked to the courts online. That makes court services easier to reach for prisoners and remand detainees. On democracy, the government pointed to national talks with political parties. A task force on…
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