{"id":23481,"date":"2019-08-01T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23481"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:29:16","slug":"tanzania-kabendera-release-will-depend-on-his-cooperation-says-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-kabendera-release-will-depend-on-his-cooperation-says-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Kabendera Release Will Depend On His Cooperation, Says Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Faustine Kapama<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">THE Immigration Department is suspecting freelance journalist, Erick Kabendera (picture) is a non-citizen, and his nationality status will be known after completion of investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Passport and Citizenship Division Commissioner, Gerald Kihinga told a news conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the Department was holding the investigative journalist for further questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He could not disclose the nation Kabendera is suspected to come from for fear of interfering with investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8221; We have already taken his statement and directed him to bring to us other essential documents which we think may help in the investigation which is still pending,&#8221; Commissioner Kihinga said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He was quick to add, however, that the speed relating to completion of investigations into the matter will depend on how the journalist cooperates with the officers involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Read further on AllAfrica: <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908010586.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908010586.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Faustine Kapama THE Immigration Department is suspecting freelance journalist, Erick Kabendera (picture) is a non-citizen, and his nationality status will be known after completion of investigations into the matter. Passport and Citizenship Division Commissioner, Gerald Kihinga told a news conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the Department was holding the investigative journalist for [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23482,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions\/23482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}