Tanzania court jails opposition leader for incitement, drops treason charge

A Tanzanian court sentenced Tundu Lissu, leader of the main opposition party Chadema, to four years in prison on Friday for incitement to violence and disrupting elections. The judges dropped a treason charge that carried the possibility of a death sentence. Arrested before last year’s presidential election, won by Samia Suluhu Hassan, Lissu called the trial political persecution and accused the judges of following government orders. He has spent 19 months in detention; British and European Union lawmakers criticized the case and called for his release.