Last year Tanzanian opposition politicians including Freeman Mbowe and Tundu Lissu were detained and beaten by police (Dispatches 22/10/24 Opposition cries foul over latest brutal attack and poll rigging)...

In August Tundu Lissu and Freeman Mbowe Chadema's two leading politicians were arrested and beaten by police ahead of a planned demonstration to celebrate World Youth Day...

A month ago hundreds of Chadema officials and supporters were arrested and detained ahead of a planned rally to mark International Youth Day on 12 August including Mbowe and deputy leader Tundu Lissu (Dispatches 14/8/24 Wave of arrests points to pre-election crackdown)...

Police authorities said the arrests which included Tundu Lissu the deputy leader of the opposition Chadema party and its chair Freeman Mbowe were needed to avert the risk of violence...

The arrest and brief detention of opposition leader Tundu Lissu accused of holding an illegal gathering surprised those who thought that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had consolidated power and was steadily restoring democratic freedoms...

Lissu the former Chadema party leader who returned to Tanzania in January after several years of recovering in Belgium from an assassination attempt by former President John Magufuli's security services has been holding political rallies across the country (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...

The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016 weeks after President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on political gatherings imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 (Dispatches 21/3/22 Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death)...