Martha Karua-led lobby calls for unconditional release of Tundu Lissu

Kenyan Senior Counsel Martha Karua.

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A pan-African rights lobby is calling for the release of Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu and the dropping of the “politically motivated charges” brought against him.

The group led by Kenyan lawyer and politician Martha Karua said the treason charges against the chairperson of Tanzania’s leading opposition party Chadema, signal an alarming escalation of repression by the ruling CCM administration.