{"id":14996,"date":"2025-11-11T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/senior-tanzanian-opposition-leaders-released-on-bail\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:22","slug":"senior-tanzanian-opposition-leaders-released-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senior-tanzanian-opposition-leaders-released-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSenior Tanzanian opposition leaders released on bail \u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Police in Tanzania released four senior opposition leaders who were arrested for their alleged role in deadly protests against last month&#8217;s general election, their party said late on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The protests plunged Tanzania into its biggest political crisis in decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Opposition party Party for Democracy and Progress, commonly known as CHADEMA and some human rights activists said more than 1000 people were killed by security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The government of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who was declared the winner of the election with nearly 98% of the vote, said those numbers were exaggerated but did not offer its own death toll.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-14996","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Police in Tanzania released four senior opposition leaders","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14996","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\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19419,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14996\/revisions\/19419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}