{"id":12543,"date":"2025-10-07T05:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-opposition-accuses-police-of-injuring-supporters-during-lissu-treason-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:52","slug":"tanzania-opposition-accuses-police-of-injuring-supporters-during-lissu-treason-trial","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-opposition-accuses-police-of-injuring-supporters-during-lissu-treason-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania opposition accuses police of injuring supporters during Lissu treason trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, has accused police of wounding at least 16 of its supporters during the ongoing treason trial of party Chairperson Tundu Lissu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident took place outside a court in Dar es Salaam, where a group of Chadema supporters had gathered to follow the proceedings. Police have not yet commented on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Chadema said several of those injured were receiving treatment in hospital after being forcibly removed from the court premises. The hearing has been adjourned until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the proceedings, Lissu questioned why a sentencing date had been set before the trial had even begun. The opposition leader is facing treason charges, which, if he is found guilty, could carry the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12544,"template":"default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12543","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, has accused police of wounding at least 16 of its supporters||Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, has accused police of wounding at least 16 of its supporters||Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, has accused police of wounding at least 16 of its supporters||Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, has accused police of wounding at least 16 of its supporters","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12543\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}