{"id":1228,"date":"2026-11-08T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:57:28","slug":"tanzanian-opposition-leader-tundu-lissu-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"TANZANIAN OPPOSITION LEADER TUNDU LISSU SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been sentenced to four years in prison following a court ruling on an incitement case. The development has attracted international attention, with the European Union and the United States expressing concern over the situation.<br>The case has renewed discussions about political freedom, democracy and the treatment of opposition leaders in East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"941\" data-id=\"1233\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-183036_ChatGPT-1024x941.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-183036_ChatGPT-1024x941.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-183036_ChatGPT-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-183036_ChatGPT-768x705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-183036_ChatGPT.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been sentenced to four years in prison following a court ruling on an incitement case. The development has attracted international attention, with the European Union and the United States expressing concern over the situation.The case has renewed discussions about political freedom, democracy and the treatment of opposition leaders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}