{"id":42112,"date":"2026-08-11T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42112"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:25:16","slug":"tanzanias-chadema-maintains-tundu-lissus-treason-tral-is-political","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzanias-chadema-maintains-tundu-lissus-treason-tral-is-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania&#8217;s Chadema maintains Tundu Lissu\u2019s treason trial is political"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\">Tanzania&#8217;s opposition leader Tundu Lissu&#8217;s Chadema party has maintained that the treason trial is political.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>This as Lissu returned to the High Court in Dar es Salaam after a five-month delay.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The case had been on hold since February due to a prosecution appeal, but proceedings have now moved into the evidentiary stage following a ruling by the Court of Appeal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He faces charges of treason linked to remarks about the country&#8217;s general elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12544,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42112","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He faces charges of treason linked to remarks about the country's general elections.","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42112","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42130,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42112\/revisions\/42130"}],"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=42112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}