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Tanzania’s main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, and at least two of his top aides were arrested by police on Sunday for holding an unlawful assembly, his party and police said.
CHADEMA, Tanzania’s largest opposition party, said Lissu was arrested at a hotel along with other party leaders in the Karatu district of northern Tanzania’s Arusha region.
“Hotel attendants said police asked the room where our Vice Chairman (Lissu) was staying in, they were told and went in … after arguments with Lissu’s security, police entered his room by force and took him away without telling where they were going,” the party said on social media platform X.
CHADEMA said that after detaining Lissu, police also arrested his security aides and at least two senior party officials.
In a statement, Arusha regional police commander Justine Masejo said they had detained Lissu and three others for questioning about accusations they were holding an unlawfully assembly and preventing police from doing their job.