00:00Tanzania's main opposition party said it had failed to get access to its leader who is in detention on
00:08treason charges. Chadema said Friday that the family and lawyers of Tundo Lisu had failed to see him at a Dar es Salaam jail
00:16where he had been kept since his arrest on April 9.
00:20In a statement, the party's aide held the Tanzanian government and prison service responsible for Lisu's safety.
00:27The prison service quickly denied that Lisu had been moved from jail.
00:32In a statement, the agency dismissed Chadema's concerns as misinformation.
00:37Lisu came second in Tanzania's 2020 presidential election.
00:42Last week, he was arrested and later charged with treason after a speech demanding election reforms.
00:48Prosecutors said the speech called for an uprising.
00:52With another presidential vote in October, critics see President Samir Suluhu Hassan's government has ramped up repression against the opposition.
01:01This week, the election commission banned Chadema from taking part in October's election
01:06after the party refused to sign a document pledging to respect the commission's orders.
01:11He tweets in Standard Oil in August , and the president's wife said this week he's vaccinated.
01:23She said that the federal government had an emergency, but he won't be resumed in the government.
01:26She said that the president was responsible for an attorney over the last year.
01:31She said that켜zen the police quickly, but she said that the federal government bailed out the military,
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