Lisu’s lawyer Rummleza Nashala said that the allegations against his client were politically operated.
A court in Tanzania has accused the opposition party leader Tundu Lisu of treason after his arrest at a public rally in which he called for electoral reforms.
The allegations against the Chadema Party president will make a new investigation to the bid of President Samia Suluhu Hasan for the election again in October as critics accused the government of breaking the opposition.
After addressing a public rally in Minga in Southern Tanzania, the opposition leader was forced into a police vehicle in a police vehicle on Wednesday.
“I came here, we held a peaceful meeting and now I understand the strategy of the police. We are clear on the situation now. I will not enter the vehicle. There is no need. We will sleep here. What is the problem?” Lisu asked the police, his supporters were told by a few moments before tear-gaus.
Lisu arrived in the commercial capital Dar-S-Salam on Thursday afternoon and in the company of the commercial capital Dar-S-Salam, which appeared in the company of his lawyers and opposition party politicians.
However, he was not allowed to enter a petition on charges of treason.
He did not guilty for a separate allegation of publishing false information and is going to return to court on 24 April.
Lisu’s lawyer Rummleza Nashala said that the allegations against his client were politically operated.
“You cannot separate these allegations from politics,” Nashala told Reuters News Agency.
“He was campaigning to educate Chadema supporters, but he has turned it into allegations.”
According to the charge sheet, Lisu, who survived shooting 16 times in an attempt to murder in 2017, commented in question in Dar-S-Salam on 3 April.
The charge sheet quoted him saying: “It is true that we say we will stop the election. We will inspire the rebellion. This is the way to bring change.”
“So we are going to spoil this election. We are really going to interrupt. … We are going to spoil it very badly,” the charge sheet accused them of saying.
In 2021, Hassan won the pladits after coming to power in 2021 to suppress the political opponents and to reduce the sensorship of media, which spread under his predecessor John Magufuli, who died in the post.
But he has faced growing criticism from human rights activists on arrest and an unexplained kidnapping and a series of killings of political opponents.
Hasan has said that the government is committed to respecting human rights, and ordered an inquiry into the reported kidnappings reported last year.
