Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Tanzania: Opposition Leader Detained

Tanzania: Opposition Leader Detained A top member of Tanzania’s main opposition party was briefly detained for organising an unauthorised meeting, just hours after police arrested his party’s leader, an opposition spokesman said on June 5th. Zitto Kabwe , the deputy secretary general of Chadema , the main opposition force to President Jakaya Kikwete , was arrested late on June 4th in Singida but was released an hour and a half later, party spokesman Erasto Tumbo told AFP . Kabwe “was holding a meeting with the public. We were told police charged him for organising the meeting beyond the authorised time limit. That’s all we know for now,” he added. The senior official’s arrest came just hours after Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe was detained in Dar‐es‐Salaam following a court order related to his involvement in a protest earlier in 2011. Mbowe faces several charges stemming from a January 5th rally in Arusha protesting against electoral fraud in the country’s October vote. The government declared the rally illegal, and charged Mbowe and 18 others with conspiracy to commit an offence, unlawful assembly and rioting. Three people were killed in the ensuing crackdown, according to official figures. The warrant was issued when Mbowe did not attend a court appearance in Arusha on May 27th and failed to send a representative explaining the reasons for his absence. On June 4th, Judge Charles Magesa urged police to execute the warrant. (The Guardian on Sunday website, Dar es Salaam 5/6; ©AFP 5/6 2011) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

Tanzania: Opposition Leader Detained

Download PDF
1 page

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/tanzania-opposition-leader-detained-sMx5CMUDun

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2011
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2011.03921.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

A top member of Tanzania’s main opposition party was briefly detained for organising an unauthorised meeting, just hours after police arrested his party’s leader, an opposition spokesman said on June 5th. Zitto Kabwe , the deputy secretary general of Chadema , the main opposition force to President Jakaya Kikwete , was arrested late on June 4th in Singida but was released an hour and a half later, party spokesman Erasto Tumbo told AFP . Kabwe “was holding a meeting with the public. We were told police charged him for organising the meeting beyond the authorised time limit. That’s all we know for now,” he added. The senior official’s arrest came just hours after Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe was detained in Dar‐es‐Salaam following a court order related to his involvement in a protest earlier in 2011. Mbowe faces several charges stemming from a January 5th rally in Arusha protesting against electoral fraud in the country’s October vote. The government declared the rally illegal, and charged Mbowe and 18 others with conspiracy to commit an offence, unlawful assembly and rioting. Three people were killed in the ensuing crackdown, according to official figures. The warrant was issued when Mbowe did not attend a court appearance in Arusha on May 27th and failed to send a representative explaining the reasons for his absence. On June 4th, Judge Charles Magesa urged police to execute the warrant. (The Guardian on Sunday website, Dar es Salaam 5/6; ©AFP 5/6 2011)

Journal

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jul 1, 2011

There are no references for this article.