Lissu Says Treason Case Rests on Police Inference as Final Submission Continues

Dar es Salaam — Tundu Lissu on Thursday argued that the prosecution’s treason case rests on an unsupported police interpretation of his April 3, 2025 speech, rather than evidence that he intended to intimidate the government or commit an offence recognised by law. His final submission will continue on Friday, September 25.

Lissu told the three-judge High Court panel that only four of the prosecution’s 17 witnesses gave evidence on the alleged intention to mobilise the public to obstruct the 2025 general election.

He said three of those four were police officers who had not attended the April meeting, while the fourth, identified in the proceedings as PW17, was the sole eyewitness and journalist who had attended and broadcast it.