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it's great to have you with us on the show now just a week ago investigative journalist eric bear out was arrested by police in tanzania since then his legal team that he should be charged or released on bail but authorities that the opposite has now been charged with offenses so serious that he's not eligible for bail outs all this is how we got here. why did the police arrest. a week ago times in the end officials responded to that question with a statement he had not been answering their questions they set. the police did was not a mandate to arrest all detain anyone several times we respectfully asked him to report to the police station but he seemed to be ignoring our son through the mandate we have we have decided to arrest him for failure to obey
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a police order not digital for you not know of a seat is a different one company or stands accused of assisting a criminal record tax evasion and money laundering his fellow tens of millions on a so certain there are the reasons behind the rest of the prize winning journalist . the whatever the police force wants to risk you for anything they need to clearly explain to you the reasons for your arrest and also the police need to inform your neighbors and family about your arrest this is something which our police force did not do when arresting cop and their. local media report that cabin us 80 year old mother has pleaded with authorities to use her son human rights organizations say his detention is enough of a take on press freedom in tanzania. i'm joined now by more from the committee to protect journalists she's the c.p.g. is representative for sub-saharan africa and joins us now from nairobi welcome to
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the program so i 1st allegedly filled to report to the police then they questioned his citizenship and now he has been charged with organized crime and financial offenses have you present said any credible evidence. so since last monday we've a lot of a lot of mixed messages coming from the authorities about why exactly they've be erected governor and use that they initially claimed that they were investigating that the 2 men shipman tried the claims that he had refused to respond to 20 someones all of our sources indicate that there was no such when the families will have been there yet the day he was going to quote and the prosecuted charged him with a comical crime we have not seen the evidence of what crimes you say he has committed so that have yet to come. and in addition to that we must know that the crimes for which it is charged particularly money laundering is not an offense for which you
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can get bail in tanzania so there is a plurality of carbon remain in jail for the duration of the trial but we have not seen that the government is evidence that the government is very thin that charges on ok what about the yes i'm sorry to cut you there what about his legal counsel what are they saying his legal counsel has come out quite vocally about what's happening with cabins out throughout all of this strong team got his put together by a question of local human rights defendants yesterday we saw one of his lawyers coming out and publicly stating that for the past one week have been there has actually not been interrogated for the charges which the abilities of now brought forward so the law if that she was a little bit confused about where these charges were coming from the lawyer was also categorical in stating that she believes that cup and there was history of
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journalism is what has brought him here in other words that the charges might be in the right that these charges might be in retaliation for his critical so so is this simply another attack on press freedom in tanzania or is there more to it. i would object to the use of go wide simply just because every single talker seen on press freedom in tanzania is great news and is concerned it's all in it's own. having said that we have a history old press freedom attack sometimes and you know what the last few years. have included media shutdowns and suspension the use of restrictive legislation and we're still quite full on says what happens to a journalist who disappeared in trying to maintain as only one ok so in a wave case is very unique. point oh you think we're going to turn up the wider impact in the caribbean attacks on the press and attacks on them it's been conned
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anea ok thanks but a question. from the committee to protect journalist thanks for your time. let's head to south sudan now a country which has only existed for a.t.'s making its the welt youngest country but since becoming independent in 2011 a young nation has seen 5 years of fighting that was supposed to come to an end when the warring parties in the country's truckie peace deal in september last year but the talks by rebels in the south continue attempts of their agreements have yet to be met. the still waiting for a unity government. it's still early when the convoy leaves the safety of the base the un peacekeepers are here to help stabilize south sudan ravaged by years of brutal civil war. but as the convoy heads from the capital juba to the southern town of jay the road is littered with evidence of violent lawlessness burned out
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cars scattered clothing discarded boots despite a cease fire between the government on the rebels armed groups harassed and robbed the civilians in the area local government officials are powerless to intervene. to get their. just. get pissy because i think this is the most. the conflict that broke out in 2013 pitted president salva kiir against then vice president react. the war killed as many as 400000 people over 4000000 people have been displaced half of them fled to neighboring countries such as uganda or sudan the deal struck last year has halted major hostilities according to the un refugees are beginning to trickle back across the border the positive thing is they're coming back. we see
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movement back into the villages but religious still here many many houses are still being recruited. but only a lasting peace will allow south sudan to put violence and destruction behind it i'm not. we need this peace to prevail especially as we women are the ones suffering carrying children yet cooking for children we have no schools for children we are left with nothing. with the peace process stalling it might be some time before the people here can begin to rebuild their lives. now let's talk about fashion precisely about to fashion stories about. it 21 year old fashionista down from kenya had
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a collection includes incorporating braille and tactile design in the fabric to make it easy for visually impaired presidents to appreciates that designs most importantly she aims to help create an all inclusive society through fashion reports are you that the money sets more lives on her work. it's a fashion design studio like you haven't seen here the creators are engineers and tech gurus make a space in kenya's capital nairobi is the incubation lab where angelo engineer who conceived of and created he seek a fashion brand that rematch in style for the blind and visually impaired i started thinking about how my skills my training feel they gave us he would apply within which could mean a team so i say broke down the people had interacted with by everyone by the interaction division in fact and the question that came up for me is how did they
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get upgrades what i love satisfaction the 1st challenge was to make the collection as censorious possible the design is tactile and includes phrases in braille then there's the bags inspired by gun holster. so how does it work how. do you get that kind of shit in a certain time he did but that could chuck like a joke huge wheel. was. when you. was so it's really snug yes so the idea is to have that with that just it for you ok so it be like that right now so the bags are designed to make it harder to steal from the blind and visually impaired who are often victims of pickpocketing in the city's. finally all tags feature a q.r.
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code that can be read on any smartphone to give a detailed description of the items. real pretty well let's see with our eyes off with our. the on all collection ultimately gives angela's clients more independence when it comes to their fashion choices and choice is in short supply for the blind and visually impaired in kenya with buzzing cities designed by and for able bodied people doing the simplest tasks like crossing the road can prove difficult for the blind. i'm curious though how much of a difference the collection makes for the intended clients so angela takes us to the kenya society for the blind where dennis will try one of the t. shirts and. this is ok he whispers then he flips the t. shirt over and discovers the braille print. he says has never felt real so
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big and that's because he's never felt it on close coming of the t. shirt is obviously special. nor that you're not alone. know what or how small it is and for me that's a big thing because no one over there were around that concert at school we're. back at the lab angela is working with engineers to include more advanced assistive technology in her work she hopes that one day majority of her colleagues will be visually impaired persons a she seeks inclusion all around. isn't that beautiful. africa you can catch all our stories on our website page some of the. boy king. paris granted to museum.
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