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[RSS] Rights groups urge Tanzania to free critics of UAE port deal

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ImageRights campaigners have urged Tanzania to release three people, including a former legislator, saying they could face treason charges for criticising a deal with an Emirati company to manage the country's ports. Amnesty International said Willibrod Slaa - a former parliamentarian and diplomat and two activists were arrested at the weekend after speaking out publicly against the ports deal signed last October by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wor ... 751212.cms

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