Tanzania court: Lissu has case to answer on treason charges

Tanzanian opposition Chadema party leader Tundu Lissu at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam on April 10, 2025. 

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Tanzania’s High Court has ordered opposition leader Tundu Lissu to open his defence in a treason trial after finding that prosecutors had presented enough evidence for him to answer the charge.

The decision on Friday, August 21, 2026, by a three-judge panel at the High Court’s Dar es Salaam Sub-Registry means Lissu, who has been in detention for 14 months, will now go on trial.