MCT conducts training for lawyers
The Executive Secretary of the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT), Kajubi Mukajanga, speaks to lawyers attending a specialized training tailored for them organised by the Council in Tanga.
The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) is conducting a specialized training for lawyers aimed at equipping them with requisite understanding of media laws and other related legislations.
The training of lawyers is one of the interventions of a project for Enhancing Media Freedom, Journalists Safety and Security in Tanzania undertaken by the Council.
Forty lawyers – 30 from the Mainland and 10 from Zanzibar will be equipped with practical knowledge of litigating media and freedom of expression cases.
The objectives for the intervention is to enhance media freedom and journalists safety and security in Tanzania and to have a pool of human rights lawyers who can be called to support cases of media and freedom of expression violations as well as related strategic and public interest litigation.
The first training for 20 lawyers started in Tanga on November 18, 2021.
During the three day training the lawyers drawn from various region in the country, among various domestic, regional and international legal issues espoused in the MCT project, will be exposed to specific laws on freedom of expression in Tanzania and how they impact on civic freedoms.
Kajubi Mukajanga, the Executive Secretary of MCT said another training will be held in Zanzibar early next year.
“Our goal is to conduct more such training depending on availability of resources”, he said.
The Council, he added, had already conducted training for journalists, lecturers and tutors from journalism training institutes and government information officers.