The truth shall set you free. This popular saying may prove familiar for Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s opposition figure, who survived an attempted assassination on September
Party Chairperson, Freeman Mbowe has called for the immediate unconditional release of the arrested leader
Mr Lissu was scheduled to appear on Wasafi FM’s Good Morning show, but the invitation was revoked later in what the radio station’s managers associate with “miscommunications.”
Arusha Police said that they arrested Tundu Lissu and others for participating in an unlawful assembly and obstructing the police from performing their duties.
On Wednesday, Lissu proved wrong people who might have thought that the politician has changed in the way he talks about those in power.
Firebrand politician Tundu Lissu arrived in Tanzania on Wednesday after living in exile for six years. But where did all this start?
Hali ya utulivu katika maeneo ya Dar es Salaam, Ruvuma na Mbeya imetajwa kuchangia kushindwa kwa mashahidi kusafiri na kufanya maandalizi ya shauri hilo.
If the court upholds any one of Lissu’s objections, the prosecution could be left with a case that is, in the words of the accused, “like a cart before a horse,” going nowhere.
The day’s proceedings saw the dramatic exit of Inspector Kaaya and the entrance of a new witness who began detailing a highly technical process for analysing the video evidence at the heart of the case.
On October 14, Tanzanian immigration authorities deported a German and a U.S. national for allegedly “violating” their visa conditions.
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