A prominent Tanzanian opposition leader, Freeman Mbowe, and other party officials have been arrested by the police.
Mbowe, who is the Chadema party chairman, and other opposition leaders were detained in south-western Tanzania.
According to reports published on Friday, the politicians have been questioned for allegedly violating local authorities’ election campaign regulations.
However, the opposition party’s director of communications has rebuffed the police’s version denouncing a manoeuvre to undermine the Chadema’s campaign.
The Citizen Tanzania media house cited John Mrama’s statement.
The party protested this week that many of its candidates were “unfairly” disqualified from running in the November 27 polls.
In September, Mbowe and his deputy Tundu Lissu as well as other opposition figures were briefly detained after riot police prevented a mass rally in Dar es Salaam.
The arrest shows a tense political landscape ahead of the presidential election due in late 2025.
