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Freeman Mbowe, the chairman of Tanzania’s Chadema party, was detained with his deputy at an airport in Mbeya on Monday, prompting the country’s main opposition party to call for the immediate and unconditional release of their leader and hundreds more arrested party members.
Tanzania‘s main opposition party demanded Monday the release of its top leaders who were detained in a mass roundup ahead of a banned youth day rally, a move condemned by rights activists as “troubling”.
Those arrested include Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and his deputy Tundu Lissu — both former presidential candidates — as well as several other top leaders, according to party officials.
They were among 469 party members, including leaders and youth members, arrested across the country, the party said in a statement, demanding their immediate and unconditional release.
