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As a psychologist collaborating with #HandsOffCain, I found Grassia's analysis of the failing communication between #Africa and #Europe about social and human priorities a based instrument to try to restore it.
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The Struggle for Freedom: Tanzanian opposition leader Lissu faces treason charges after calling for election reform | George W. Bush Presidential Center

Today's elections in Tanzania will most assuredly not be free nor fair while #TunduLissu faces trial for treason and other major opposition leaders have been blocked from running. My latest for the George W. Bush Presidential Center: www.bushcenter.org/publications...

A question for #SamiaSuluhu #president of #Tanzania: Why do you lock up your political opponent #TunduLissu? Can't you win #elections without playing false? #FreeTunduLissu #FreeTanzania #Democracy #HumanRights #Demokrasia #HakiZaBinAdamu #Democratie #UniverseleMensenrechten

#Tanzania's opposition leader #TunduLissu is in a court this Monday in Nairobi, #Kenya.

He told he had been denied his basic legal rights and that he would defend himself against a treason charge that carries the death penalty.

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Hassan intensifies crackdown with torture of Kenyan and Ugandan activists Boniface Mwangi was held for four days before being dumped at the border

Kenyan activist #BonifaceMwangi was in Tanzania to attend the trial of opposition leader #TunduLissu when the authorities detained him for four days, beat him and dumped him at the border to make his way back to #Nairobi in a wheelchair.

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Kenya’s ex-justice minister ‘deported’ from Tanzania Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country’s former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Two colleagues accompanying her were also reportedly detained and deported after flying in from neighbouring Kenya. Tanzanian authorities have not yet commented. Lissu, who is the leader of Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party, is due to appear in court on Monday after being charged with treason last month. Karua is a respected human rights advocate, and a vocal critic of what she calls “democratic backsliding” in East Africa. She has also been representing Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye, who was kidnapped in Kenya last year and taken back to his home country to face treason charges. Like Lissu, he denies the charges, arguing that they are politically motivated. Karua served as Kenya’s justice minister from 2005 to 2009, and was the running-mate of former Prime Minister Raila Odigna in his failed presidential bid in elections in 2022. She launched her own opposition party, the People’s Liberation Party (PLP), earlier this year. The PLP said that she – along with fellow Kenyan lawyer Gloria Kimani and human rights campaigner Lynn Ngugi – were subjected to “hours of unwarranted interrogation”, before being deported. Condemning the incident, Chadema general secretary John Mnyika said: “The solution to hiding the shame of a false treason case is not to detain foreign lawyers, but to drop the case altogether.” The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition said it was shocked by the what it called the “arbitrary arrests”, as Karua had been allowed into Tanzania to observe proceedings when Lissu appeared in court on 15 April. Human rights groups have been increasingly concerned about a crackdown on the opposition in Tanzania ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections due in October. Lissu cannot seek bail because he has been charged with treason, a crime for which the maximum sentence is death. He survived an assassination attempt in 2017 after being shot 16 times. The opposition leader was arrested in April after he held a rally under under the slogan “No Reforms, No Election”. He is demanding sweeping changes, saying Tanzania’s current laws do not allow for free and fair elections. The government denies the allegation. Since his arrest, his Chadema party has been barred from contesting the October poll after it refused to to comply with the electoral commission’s requirement to sign a code of conduct. The document requires parties and their supporters to “behave well”, and to “maintain peace and harmony” during the elections. Chadema sees the code of conduct as a ploy to contain the opposition, and for state repression to continue. The CCM party, which has governed Tanzania since 1977, is expected to retain power following the latest developments. President Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to be its presidential candidate. She was widely praised for giving Tanzanians greater political freedom when she took office in 2021 following the death of the incumbent, John Magufuli. Her critics say Tanzania is once again seeing the repression that characterised Magufuli’s rule. The government denies the allegation. – BBC Additional reporting by Humphrey Mgonja in Nairobi The post Kenya’s ex-justice minister ‘deported’ from Tanzania appeared first on The Namibian.

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Mogelijk doodstraf vanwege ‘hoogverraad’ Tanzaniaanse politicus riep op tot boycot van de verkiezingen

De Tanzaniaanse politicus #TunduLissu kan de #doodstraf krijgen voor ‘hoogverraad’, omdat hij opriep tot een #boycot van de verkiezingen. Maar dat is geen misdrijf. Teken alsjeblieft deze protestmail! www.amnesty.nl/forms/email-...

Banning opposition leader Tundu Lissu from elections confirms Samia’s auhoritarian shift Securocrats in the ruling CCM don’t want to risk a free vote this year despite a stronger economy

Charging opposition leader #TunduLissu with #treason and banning him from this year’s election shows that President #SamiaSuluhuHassan’s opening of #Tanzania’s political space has ended.

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Tanzania court charges main opposition party leader with treason - Sight Magazine Tanzanian opposition party leader Tundu Lissu was charged with treason, a capital offence, for comments he made last week.

Tanzania court charges main opposition party leader with treason @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Tanzania #TunduLissu #CHADEMA #SamiaSuluhuHassan

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🇹🇿 En Tanzanie, le leader du principal parti d'opposition et d'autres membres libérés  www.election-politique.com/index.php?di... 

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