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News / NationalZimbabwean agitator deported from Tanzaniaby Staff reporter1 hr ago |180ViewsThe Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Dr Blessing Vava, was denied entry into Tanzania and deported on Tuesday in what the organisation 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 engage with civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements.

The mission aimed to discuss concerns over the escalating crackdown on dissent under what the coalition called the “increasingly authoritarian regime” of President Samia Suluhu Hassan ahead of Tanzania’s upcoming general elections.Upon arrival, Dr Vava’s passport was reportedly confiscated by immigration officials, who subjected him to hours of interrogation and profiling in restricted airport rooms.

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