Zimbabwe Rights Leader Deported from Tanzania Ahead of Controversial Election

The Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Dr Blessing Vava was denied entry into Tanzania and deported on Tuesday in what the coalition has described as a barbaric act of repression by Tanzanian authorities.

According to a statement from the Coalition’s Information Desk, Dr Vava arrived at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam on 28 October as part of a regional solidarity mission to meet with civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements.

The groups, the statement said, have been facing severe repression under what it called the increasingly authoritarian regime of President Samia Suluhu Hassan ahead of Tanzania’s general elections, which the coalition labelled a one-horse race electoral ritual.

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