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Tanzania's Maxence Melo, the winner of last year's International Press Freedom Award, never set out to be a journalist.
Sixteen years ago, he co-founded Jamii Forums, a website that exposed corruption and helped push for political accountability - as an alternative to the mainstream news outlets.
It won him global acclaim, for representing the best of journalism. But in the last three years, he has been to court 137 times and has been detained overnight for his work |||READ MORE …