Tanzania charges editor of whistle-blowing website

Maxence Melo, co-founder of whistle-blowing website JamiiForums, appears in court in Dar es Salaam, on December 16, 2016. AFP PHOTO | DANIEL HAYDUK

Tanzanian authorities on Friday charged the editor of a whistle-blowing website for failing to reveal the identity of contributors to the site, court documents revealed.

Maxence Melo, who co-founded the website Jamii Forums, was charged with operating a website without a local domain, obstructing a police investigation and failing to comply with a police order to disclose data.