{"id":15850,"date":"2020-06-24T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15850"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:31:39","slug":"tanzanian-opposition-leader-arrested-ahead-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/tanzanian-opposition-leader-arrested-ahead-of-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian Opposition Leader Arrested Ahead Of Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An opposition party in Tanzania has condemned the arrest of its leader, Zitto Kabwe, describing it as a clear act of oppression and intimidation ahead of October&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alliance for Change and Transparency (Act) says Mr Kabwe and seven colleagues have been accused by the police of unlawful assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police interrupted a legal political meeting in the south-eastern region of Linde and arrested them on trumped up charges, a party statement says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East African nation will hold general elections in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President John Magufuli, who is expected to run for a second term, dissolved parliament last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rights groups say oppression of the opposition has increased significantly since President Magufuli came to power in 2015 during which time there has also been a clampdown on the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opposition party in Tanzania has condemned the arrest of its leader, Zitto Kabwe, describing it as a clear act of oppression and intimidation ahead of October&#8217;s elections. The Alliance for Change and Transparency (Act) says Mr Kabwe and seven colleagues have been accused by the police of unlawful assembly. Police interrupted a legal political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15858,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850\/revisions\/15858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}