Tundu Lissu leads the Chadema opposition party and came second in Tanzania's 2020 presidential election. (Wikimedia Commons pic)NAIROBI: Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who was charged with treason last year, has started a hunger strike to protest his inability to access his lawyers, his party said.
Lissu, who leads the Chadema opposition party and came second in the 2020 presidential election, began refusing food on Monday after his lawyers were denied entry to the prison where he is being held, party spokesman Brenda Rupia wrote on X.
Tanzania Prisons Service spokesman Elizabeth Mbezi said it would give an update on Lissu soon. Government spokesman Gerson Msigwa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
