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With the release of Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe on 4 March the authorities have moved a step closer to restoring some democratic freedoms that were supressed under President John Magufuli's rule...
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The test case will be the fate of Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) chairman Freeman Mbowe still on trial on terrorism charges widely viewed as trumped up (AC Dispatches 9/08/21 Trial of opposition activists will test President Hassan's reform credentials)...
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The new appointees take up their posts after oppositionists and civic society activists lambasted the government for arresting Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe and 10 others in July then arresting protestors outside the court where the detainees were arraigned...
' Making 'terrorists' of the opposition Freeman Mbowe the leader of the opposition Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) appeared in court on 31 August to face charges of conspiring to assault a police officer and paying individuals to blow up petrol stations and cut down trees to make road blocks prosecutors told the media...
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The trial of Freeman Mbowe the chairman of opposition party Chadema will be a key test of whether President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regime is dropping the authoritarianism of her late predecessor John Magufuli and showing more respect for human rights...
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For example, in the early hours of 21 July, police arrested opposition leader Freeman Mbowe and 10 other members of his Chadema opposition party in the port city of Mwanza...
Following a call for demonstrations on 2 November Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and former Member of Parliament for Arusha Godbless Lema were arrested on terrorism charges under which they cannot apply for bail...
Party leader Freeman Mbowe also plans to contest the presidential polls despite himself having been hospitalised last month after being victim of what his party says was a 'politically motivated' attack (AC Vol 61 No 14 Media denied oxygen)...
In late June daily newspaper Tanzania Daima had its licence revoked for 'violating ethics' although no specific allegations were levelled at the paper which is owned by the family of Freeman Mbowe...
Another Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe openly accused 'local security organs' of carrying out the shooting and called for an independent investigation which was quickly rebuffed...