Source: ABC News
“Police arrested Tanzania’s most prominent opposition figures Monday whose party has called for protests against what it says is a crackdown targeting its supporters. Hundreds of backers of the country’s main opposition party, CHADEMA, were arrested last month and the party’s secretariat member Ali Kibao was abducted and later found dead with signs of beatings and acid poured on his face. Amnesty International at the time called for an immediate stop to ‘arbitrary detentions of political opposition’ in Tanzania. Authorities said Monday’s arrests were made as party officials defied a prohibition on protests.” (09/23/24)