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[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

Tanzania’s Tundu Lissu should win the Sakharov Prize

By nominating Tundu Lissu for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2026, the EPP Group sends a message of support for democracy and the rule of law in Tanzania. Facing a death sentence after an unfair trial and persecution, the Tanzanian opposition leader remains a courageous symbol of the fight for democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

"Tundu Lissu has been in detention for more than 500 days because he advocates for free and fair elections and a democratic future for his country. He continues to face the death penalty. There is no doubt about the political nature of his detention. Despite persecution and repression, Tundu Lissu remains steadfast in his democratic convictions. By nominating him, the EPP Group honours this extraordinary courage. The European Union must no longer tolerate the criminalisation of legitimate opposition work or the manipulation of the judiciary in Tanzania," says @davidmcallister MEP, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.

"The struggle of Tundu Lissu highlights the critical erosion of democratic pluralism and constitutional rights in Tanzania. This nomination reinforces the EPP Group’s solidarity with democratic defenders worldwide. We must ensure that the rule of law is used to protect political freedom, in Tanzania and throughout the world," insists @ReinholdLopatka MEP, who nominated Tundu Lissu for the Prize on behalf of the EPP Group.

"Given the strong partnership Europe has with Tanzania, we cannot and will not look away when political persecution, such as that faced by Tundu Lissu, takes place. We will highlight this unacceptable behaviour with his nomination for the Sakharov Prize," states @lukasmandl MEP, chairing the EPP Group in the Development Committee.

The Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament will choose the laureate from among three shortlisted names on 22 October.

[Grace Charles Rweyemamu @RweyemamuGrace]

Wow. I told Mwenyekiti how much we love him. Leo Mhe Tundu Lissu amekamilisha utetezi wake Kwa maneno mazito sana. Mwenyekiti Yuko Imara sana na hatetereki.

[Mohammed Dewji MO @moodewji]

Historia imeonyesha mara nyingi kwamba hatari kubwa kwa taasisi yoyote haitokani na wakosoaji wa wazi, bali kwa wale wanaovaa vazi la uaminifu huku kwa siri wakipinga misingi yake.

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Kuna jinsi ambavyo huyu jamaa amejitoa kwa ajili ya Tanzania na Watanzania….

Na ni kweli matatizo yote ya haki tuliyonayo TZ yanatokana na kundi dogo la watu………. Watu milioni 70 tunabagazwa na kuuawa na kundi halizidi watu 100.

[Vitus Nkuna @VitusNkuna]

CHADEMA Wilaya ya Kyerwa tumeanza rasmi ujenzi wa Ofsi ya Chama. Ofsi hii itakuwa ya kisasa yenye Ofsi za Chama na Mabaraza yake, pamoja na Ukumbi wa Mikutano unaoweza kuingiza watu zaidi ya 200.
Ujenzi huu ni kwa nguvu za Wanachadema na Wapenda mabadiliko.
#PeoplesPower

[MwanzoTvPlus @MwanzoTvPlus]

#BREAKING: TANZANIA HAINA SERIKALI HALALI: TAASISI YA THABO MBEKI
Taasisi ya Thabo Mbeki imetangaza kuwa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania kwa sasa haina serikali halali, kufuatia uchaguzi mkuu uliofanyika tarehe 29 Oktoba 2025.

Katika taarifa yake, taasisi hiyo imesema matokeo yaliyotangazwa na Tume Huru ya Uchaguzi Tanzania hayakuakisi matakwa ya wananchi, na badala yake utawala uliopo umewekwa kwa watu kupitia mchanganyiko wa nguvu na ulaghai.

Wakfu huo umerejelea ripoti za waangalizi wa uchaguzi kutoka SADC na AU, ambazo zilionyesha kuwa uchaguzi ulikuwa na mapungufu makubwa katika kanuni na miongozo ya kidemokrasia.

Waangalizi walibainisha kuwa wapiga kura hawakuweza kutumia uhuru na dhamira yao ya kidemokrasia, na wakfu huo ukaongeza kuwa Tanzania inahitaji mwanzo mpya wa kisiasa.

Aidha, taasisi hiyo imetoa risala za rambirambi kwa familia zilizopoteza wapendwa wao kufuatia vurugu zilizotokea baada ya uchaguzi, ikisisitiza heshima yake kwa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania na wananchi wake, na kuwatambua kama marafiki wa kweli na washirika wa kudumu.

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

So……

Let’s talk.

How many Premier League titles have I won then? 🤔

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Nchimbi anatafutwa na nchi nzima kasoro watu wa CCM. Let that sink in……….

Watu wa CCM sio binadamu kama sisi, kuna jinsi mioyo yao imekuwa kama ya wanyama…….

WHERE IS EMMANUEL NCHIMBI?????????

[Hilda Newton @HildaNewton21]

Kama mgongo wako uko salama na unaendelea kuulinda wivu mkubwa please mchangie pesa ili aweze kulipa hiyo faini.

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Jina: GODFREY WILLIAM

#LindaMgongoWako #HaliNiMbaya

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Meseji yangu kwa Gen Z kuelekea maandamano ya October 29………..

[VardenNk @VardenNk]

@DoneSome18 Daaaah

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

@VitusNkuna Kila mtu anajua atashinda eventually ila hatutaki akae jela miaka 25 kama Mandela, lazma tupambane atoke sasa.

[CHADEMA NYASA @chadema_nyasa]

Leo, Tarehe 20 Novemba, 2026 Mwenyekiti wa Kanda ya Nyasa @TheRealJongwe atakuwa na Mkutano wa Hadhara Kata ya Kirando Jimbo la Nkasi Kaskazini Mkoani Rukwa.

#FreeLissu
#KatibaMpya

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Good job CHADEMA, kutoa ushirikiano kwa hii tume ni kuipa uhalali….

Hii tume haina uhalali sababu imeteuliwa na mtuhumiwa mkuu wa mauaji ya October…..

Na any findings za hii tume ni za kutupa kwenye shimo la taka 🚮

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, imprisoned and facing a possible death sentence, has been nominated for the EU’s top human rights prize.

He is on trial for treason, which he denies, since April 2025. The nomination was made by the European People’s Party.

[Eved HaAm @NoPartialRights]

🚨 CMAG Must Hold Tanzania government to Account:

Tanzania remains on your formal agenda for a reason. Credible investigations by @amnesty, @hrw, @UN special procedures, and independent media documented the use of unnecessary and lethal force against protesters and bystanders after the 29 October 2025 general elections.

Families still search for the missing. Some have buried clothes and photographs because they were never given a body. Morgues overflowed. Bodies vanished from hospitals. Reports of remains removed to conceal evidence have never been answered with an independent, transparent criminal investigation that identifies commanders, shooters, and those who ordered the disposal of the dead.

A government-appointed commission later acknowledged hundreds of deaths. Acknowledgement without accountability is not justice. It is a briefing note.

Hon. E.P. Chet Greene of Antigua and Barbuda (@ABMinistryFA), the Ministry of International Relations of Botswana (@MIR_BW), Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand (@AnitaAnandMP) and Global Affairs Canada (@CanadaFP), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Grenada (@MoFAGrenada), Wisma Putra of Malaysia (@MalaysiaMFA), Malta’s Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs (@MFEAMalta) and Minister Chris Fearne (@chrisfearne), Mauritius Minister Dhananjay Ritish Ramful (@RitishRamful), the Government of Samoa (@samoagovt), and the Zambia Foreign Ministry (@ZambiaMFAIC), Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey (@SGCommonwealth) and the Commonwealth Secretariat (@commonwealthsec):

Any official Tanzanian report claiming “reconciliation” and a fair process in the case of CHADEMA chairman Mr. @TunduALissu should be treated with extreme caution. Mr Lissu has been held since April 2025 on a non-bailable bogus treason charge arising from political speech about the election.

Mr. Lissu remains behind bars. The trial continues. Opposition members and young people continue to face arrest, terrorism-related accusations, and the shrinking of civic space. The media is constrained. Peaceful assembly is restricted.

Tanzanians live with the knowledge that criticism can be followed by a knock at the door. That is not a country that has returned to Commonwealth values. It is a country asking you to accept paper progress in place of lived reality.

The pattern did not begin on election day. Before the vote, former diplomat who turned the ruling party CCM critic Humphrey Polepole was abducted from his Dar es Salaam home on 6 October 2025. Blood was found at the scene. His family has pleaded for him to be returned, dead or alive. His whereabouts remain unknown.

In August 2026, Vice-President Dr Emmanuel Nchimbi resigned after less than a year in office, was expelled from CCM, and has been removed from public political life. These events sit inside a wider climate of fear: enforced disappearance, selective prosecution, and the message that no one, opposition leader, ruling-party dissident, or deputy head of state is beyond sudden erasure from public view.

We therefore call on you to refuse any presentation that sanitises this record, and to reject the participation of Professor Palamagamba Kabudi as a messenger of false reassurance. Do not allow a ministerial seat in New York to launder unresolved killings, missing bodies, a jailed opposition leader, a vanished former ambassador, and a muzzled public.

Demand the immediate, unconditional release of political prisoners including Tundu Lissu; a genuinely independent investigation into the October 2025 killings and disappearances; the return of remains to families; an end to abductions and terrorism charges against civic actors; and the restoration of media freedom and political organisation.

If these conditions are not met, CMAG must move from words to consequences. In Tanzania, the dead, the missing, and the imprisoned cannot be reduced to talking points.

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[Eved HaAm @NoPartialRights]

When defending democracy demands everything: @TunduALissu’s extraordinary journey through political persecution, an assassination attempt, exile, imprisonment and the continuing struggle to rebuild democratic institutions and restore fundamental freedoms in Tanzania.

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Guys, nna swali vipi kina Ally Hapi na machawa wa CCM wametoa ufafanuzi kuwa Nchimbi atafika lini Kizimkazi kutoa faraja?

Nchimbi atolewe anaposhikiliwa akatoe pole na faraja ambazo Watanzania wengine tunashikiwa bunduki tukatoe.

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

Thank you for continuing to speak out about Tundu Lissu’s nightmare in Tanzania. His ordeal must not be ignored, forgotten, or silenced.

Tundu Lissu deserves justice, freedom, and the full attention of the international community.

The world should continue to stand with him and with every Tanzanian demanding accountability, democracy, and human rights.

The world must not look away from what is happening in Tanzania.

Samia Suluhu is the devil in human form.

[Damon M. Wilson @DamonMacWilson]

Important recognition of Tundu Lissu’s extraordinary courage.

He has survived an assassination attempt, returned home to continue the struggle for democratic reform, and now remains imprisoned on treason charges.

An inspiring nomination. #FreeTunduLissu