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ah, ah ah, ah, ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim john. tiffany: as main opposition party is demanding answers after police arrested its leader. freeman, my boy, and at least 10 today, my party members were detained during a night. raid police accuse my boy of conspiracy to commit terrorist facts and kill government officials. but human rights groups denounced the arrest as a crackdown on democracy. president sammy as to who hudson had promised to defend

basic freedoms when she took power 4 months ago. after the death of her predecessor, the today, my party was organizing a rally to discuss constitutional changes and reducing the president's powers. when the way was arrested. the constitution we are fighting for, he's not just for us, but for everybody. it is to foster unity and make sure few individuals do not make decisions to hurt the nation. the constitution will hold leaders to account when they overstep their mandate. just after the arrests police insisted the party was breaking colbert 19 rules by holding public meetings. so much traffic. but we're just making sure people are here to the laws of the country that invited many people who are turning their plan, meeting from a party meeting into a public line, even though their plans before an indoor meeting. when president john michael fully died in march, sammy asked lou who has stepped into his position making history as townsend. he is 1st female head of state. she became

a member of parliament in 2010. then 5 years later, vice president hudson reached out to the opposition and pledged to defend democracy and basic rules when she took office. the opposition wants constitutional changes including reducing presidential powers in one policy shift often has announced a cobra 19 vaccine rollout. intensive. nia bugger, fully had called vaccines dangerous and didn't release data on the outbreak. often says her 1st priority is to grow the economy. but critics say she is not implementing changes quickly enough. ah. all right, let's bring in our guess in kampala, orient nicko tenzing the researcher at human rights watch. in most tension the i can require you political analyst and an honorary research fellow at the university of wisconsin, madison and in tina and belgium turned the list to vice chairman of judea. ma anthony as main opposition party, a warm welcome to you all. and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story

to do, let me start with you. what's the latest you know about freeman my boy's condition as well as the other members of today who were arrested. do you have any idea of what will happen next to them and how concerned are you for their condition? i thank you very much for having me. the last test information that we have is 5 of those ads that were being held in the northwest city of wanda wet, wet, wet, traveled, organized a yesterday to data alarm at this time. so but 1200 kilometer and one of them has was released this morning for remain police custody in data. salam, i've got the other 9 who remained in was out. we 3 have been released, so they are about 6 worked in in police custody. as far as chairman mo,

it is concerned. since yesterday the police have prevented his lawyer. they have prevented a member of your family, his children in this camp to see him. so we have not seen him, but he is not being seen. no one has, as has talked to him, and therefore we do not know what his condition is. and the police have said nothing about their plans, what they plan to do next. and so that is fine, as far as the lead test updates. ah, i can the, the fact the tanza me as main opposition leader has not just been arrested, but also accused of terrorism. what does that mean with regard to democratic reforms in tanzania? thank you very much. this me, it's not that it's punching

a fee from the regime whereby we are said repression against the mo cressy and your last hope legit provision packee. and in particular, the change in my practice has been talked about the fact that both the leader and the party is any solution. so we saw back track down from where we can test feedback from 2016 ab severely. but their position has been operating in sounds very restricted, but in the full, if adam is freshman, the experienced or less restriction increased. and we thought that maybe there is some life of change. ringback when the new administration following,

they will be fully but we have realized that people. ringback just pretend and only rhetoric, which prevents somebody has not been able to sustain for so long. and already we are starting to see the same approach that have been used to crack down opposition leaders to frustrate position. but yet, or am president hudson had made gestures that indicated that she would be potentially moving away from the heavy handed leadership of former president margot, fully from your perspective, what do these arrests signify when it comes to her presidency? the idea of her potentially enacting reforms because you heard icon there say that these arrest essentially mean that there's going to be continuity between the previous administration of president mago fully in his repressive tactics. and now the presidency of president has one. yes, i am really,

i think best that are very troubling and it's indicate as she describes, it continues to as a refund. october not doing the the general election where i read position number 1000000 hyphened extremely complex during that period of time. i think that it, she have an opportunity to really bad tied. and i was pointed out, it looked like that was going to be going to be some level of change in terms of the repressive tactic lesson. government was taking again, critic but we dismantle that idea. and i think that she, she,

she and her government really ought to take steps to address that to do. let me ask your opinion when it comes to this issue because it was just a few months back that president hudson had reached out to members out of the opposition. she had pledged to defend democracy when she took office. have you been hopeful at that point that things might change and are you what all hopeful now? well, we were the 1st to make the move where the fast to extend an olive branch immediately after she was wanting, as president, i personally met a call to ha, i spoke to one of our systems telling, telling him to convey my message to i haul that administrative would move away from the toxic legacy of john condom fully. now my phone call was immediately followed by an official letter from my party in which

we requested to invite us to a meeting in which will tap that dialogue with that country away from 5 years of repression. it was, i thought i was extension of olive branch and asked when she meant that public stockman, that you would be thinking to be opposition. now that was for low. my goal in between. she has had meetings with all and sundry, but she has not fulfilled her pledge to speak to the opposition and is now all we are getting now is more of the family, more of what we got during 5 years of them were fully tyranny. and therefore at this is that is difficult to be helpful that, that this some,

yeah, administration is going to be any different from back up with that. in fact, there is a reason to fear that we may be even worse to depression. even the present mom foley was was better blood. he's treatment of the opposition. he never bad to chat with as serious offense as i can. i need to present some yes. more hot ted. ted are easy and that's, that's harold that we aim for better. tough day that we ahead, i kinda its only been a few months since president hudson took office and obviously there was some hope from some quarters there that perhaps things would be different under her stewardship. perhaps there would be more of a push for reform. let me ask you this, what would you say to those who might suggest that perhaps it was too soon to be

holding these types of gatherings that you damn party were planning on holding? i mean, should more time have been given or would the result have been the same from your vantage point? i think that that would have been the same. we actually had given has the benefits of a doubt. we is analysts that she might really mean changed, but actually we knew from the background that she is actually a result of maybe just to met election that was characterized by, by a lack of latitude, valid safety that thank you. thank. so we need to understand that 2 c m fields. let us question. and some presidents, somebody husband herself, is not confident, especially because she knows that they really but also she feel like she needs to

to be, to, as there ought to please. they must go fully had lane as a land lease, who preferred their had lying side. and even the pilot itself is 100 percent of gross 100 percent. and each member, the pilot bit that will be in sap. alum is actually shell, feels that bubble fully who brought them back and they would like mobile full is approach to continue so that they can continue to survive. and she has a lot of pressure with that, but she was also part of that repression. so i would go, i agree with to do that. what we might see was actually not optimistic. and then when we said that she because of their 1st coming election, which i think that you have and she has to, to survive through that. and he's ready. it seems that he is really any regret,

repressive approach just so that he can maintain her presidency beyond safety. 25 yet or am i just like to take a step back for a moment? how much did the human rights situation in tans in the deteriorate under the stewardship? a former president muggle fully. what was it like in the country before he took power and then what happened after he took power? i think it's important to point out the best company, like any country in the world and in the region. you know, there's always been a degree off our human rights abuse that that has been, he had in need to be addressed. but i think after fully came to power in 2016, the situation did period dramatically to a point that many people just felt that they could not be out of publicly.

we have always be to a good example of the reprisals against government getting back to with in being with him almost being estimated and several extent that took place. we attacked them the position attacked from the media space with extremely restricted organization, but typically will be involved in speaking out against kinds of abuse that we're not able to because they lived in fear all essentially being punished for, criticizing the government. and i think that situation and bad it got seemed to, as we've mentioned, we've all talked about. it seemed to be shifting at this point in time. but as i said, the recent events indicate but it might actually be getting better to do that. to

them. a party has been calling for constitutional changes like the reduction of presidential power and independent electoral commission. what else would the opposition like to see what other kinds of reforms do they want to see happen in tanzania? where the we have been calling for a complete overhaul of constitutional and legal order. in order to give the country a new, bad, and democratic constitution. and this call have been going on for the past 3 decades, is not jobs recently, they have been going on since 1991, when a presidential commission commanded that they would need a new constitution. and therefore, and therefore they met jackie. sure the day is done. well, i'm close to a talk,

talk about all of our post, huge, know, and the political order to create more democratic times. but immediately in the, in the, in the chart rock, we'd like to see eric torres of political freedoms. that's guaranteed by the quote, the kind of situation we want to see an end to the use of criminal law to punish political opponents. we want to see an end to impunity, to the impunity of the security forces which have killed and taught shot and maimed hundreds of people in the past 5 years. we want to see a repeat of bad and impressive, but better draconian legislation that then acted soon after president fully capital office in 2015. we also want to see an ad at

a lead. i'm conditional and immediate relieve of all political praise and the fashion of legitimate criminal prosecutions that have been going to law against the democratic opposition. so these are the best, the best, the math that we, we, we, we are making. i can do how popular is president hudson and what does the public think of her leadership thus far? what i see and do i will. she became very popular in the 100 base because it's what he calls my in terms of business environment. political says even has tweets posts where very encouraging to the public. but after that, when she 1st said that she is not allowing the constitution and then at the public rallies because she wants to move the economy immediately,

we saw people starting to have reservation. that gets that and also to actually that and the standing or realizing that she's more of a teenager then a change. and i think right now with their new budget and then you levies and back session. very high, especially on the wall by melissa section, which is a platform whereby many people bought in form of the form that i use the and now the government has introduced that tax which back to everybody. and it's actually a very regressive taxes and lots of complaints about the egg together with that, the big supply mission from military has not been helpful, is lake that actually mocking their citizens who are complaining about the new practice they, you can move to, to wound for example using what like that,

or saying we pass these, we cannot change. so people have come plenty of times that this government, this administration is not ready to lead to listen and is going to do your power and want to do anything that they want combined with the list of their opposition lead as admin buzz as well is now come up chat, did i give like his added salt to there will be coming the popular baby. i get this from the talk to the 3 and i don't see that a lot in, in more here. so that, that we're spending but people are talking people, people ask about these things, but i also see their social media how people are talking, how people are expressing themselves, i guess this new levies also, i guess that they have their depression. i guess they open that or how much

power is the president or rather the office of the presidency have in tanzania. i think that, you know, the, the fact that the, the, the countries shifted dramatically and did poll. i'm mostly election is an indication of power. but he had, i think, one of the criticism that a lot of people have is that government policy and then generally approaches to way to the way the country is run. we're a reflection on cable person all views. so for example, rather as opposed to the way that the any policy should come into play, which would be a section of a wide i want to give an example of the ways in which the government's policy was influenced

by a personal interview. one of which was inspected on pregnant school growth returning to school. but you were that they shouldn't. and that eventually became government policy. that shouldn't be the case. and the law itself in the constitutional company equality. but the person of use eventually began to reflect on company policy, and that i think is an indication of the amount of income and then have ideally should packet. and i think that's part of the reason why they have been so many calls for constitutional reform to restrict the kind of influence and power then the president has there to do. you know,

the government has said that there were covered 19 restrictions that the opposition was in violation of by having this meeting or by planning this meeting that should emma shouldn't have planned this meeting because of the restrictions imposed about covered 19 had members of to them a been warned by the government not to hold the meeting and was permission needed festival bahama. there are no common 90 restrictions in town that have never been seen as the outbreak of the damage. as you may remember, the present mother fully taught pallet refused to have and there is pictures on public gatherings on the policy ban on. and it's sort of public gathering because of my present model, poorly, the fuels and the new president and have gotten that have not instituted as being

got as friction on probably 19. they have not probably be fed and the public gathering on it on the day that we have bred to be chucked them out. constitutional form. that was a major part event in the sam c. p, a was apparently a league match between a team from the cost is 2 and a local team which was attend that not only by bows and soft spots fan. it was also attended by better government official in the city in the same time as they were cracking down on my event. saw there is not a single restriction of 19 that is not a single problem, bishop of public gatherings because of public 19. and there is not a single prohibition in any law which require us to seek permission in

order to hold in time a positive event like the one that we plan. it was not a public riley, it was going to an indoor event, which is not elected by law, which did not require any question to the police. and then now you will be covered by team as an excuse to crack down on emma to crack down on, on, on our meeting at a time when they are holding meetings on a daily basis all over the country. and that's you, that's from the president about all the way down to the junior office at the local level. so ccm, that will impact it. and the government are free to hold the meetings as they wish . the opposition today my particular cannot be called all non existent,

corporate main restrictions. it's nonsense. all right, we run out of time, so we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much to our guests or am nichol. i come to quote you and to do this and thank you for watching . you can see this and all of our previous programs. again, anytime by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com, and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, forward slash ag inside story. you can also during the conversation on twitter, our handle is at a g inside story from him, how much i'm assuming the whole team here, bye for now. the news news. news.

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