Bobi condemns Tanzania's Lissu’s four-year jail term after treason acquittal
National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has criticised Tanzania's decision to sentence opposition leader Tundu Lissu to four years in prison, saying the conviction on an incitement charge is intended to silence dissent. Lissu, the chairman of Chadema, was on Friday, November 6, acquitted of treason by the High Court in Dar es Salaam after a three-judge panel found that prosecutors had failed to prove that he intended to overthrow or intimidate the government. However, the court convicted him of the alternative charge of incitement.
