Tanzanian opposition leader's treason trial opens weeks before election


FILE PHOTO: Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu of CHADEMA party stands in the dock as he appears at the High Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Emmanuel Herman/File Photo

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting.

Lissu, who came second in the last presidential poll in 2020, was arrested in April and charged with treason over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on the public to rebel and disrupt the elections later this month.

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