Lissu's lawyer said the treason charges were politically driven. He has been remanded in custody and has yet to enter a plea. Prosecutors allege he is stoking a rebellion and intends to disrupt ...

Dar es Salaam (AFP) – Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu was charged on Thursday with treason, which carries the death penalty, a day after being detained following a rally ...

She was sentenced in August to 12 years in a penal colony for “high treason,” having “fully admitted her guilt” at a closed trial in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsky Region Court said in a news ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu was charged with treason Thursday following his arrest at a public rally in which he called for electoral reforms ahead of ...

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The 56 th anniversary of the Rivonia Treason Trial is an important milestone in the struggle ... let me quote in part from the statement from the dock delivered by Nelson Mandela which eloquently ...

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu was charged on Thursday with treason, which carries the death penalty, a day after being detained following a rally, one of his lawyers told AFP.