00:00After 19 months in detention, Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu will know his fate on Friday
00:06in a treason trial that has drawn international criticism and carries a potential death penalty.
00:13Lissu was arrested ahead of last year's presidential election for allegedly inciting a poll boycott.
00:19President Samia Selo Hassan Garmans cracks down on proponents and critiques ahead of the vote in October 2025,
00:27sparking huge protests during the election.
00:30Security forces responded by killing thousands, according to the opposition and right groups.
00:35The government posts the death toll at 518.
00:38The case marks the third high-profile treason trial in mainland Tanzania's history.
00:43The first two in the 1970s and 1980s involved defendants accused of plotting to overthrow and assassinate the country's founding
00:50father, Julius Nyerere.
00:51Lissu faces a possible death penalty but insists he is innocent.
