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Eye Investigations

Season 5 · Episode 20

Tundu Lissu: A Fight Too Far?

0.022mJuly 13, 2026

BBC Africa Eye profiles Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu who has spent more than a year in prison awaiting trial on treason charges, for which he could face the death penalty.

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Episode 1Into The Void: Putin's Foreign Fighters
Episode 2Hunting the Traffickers
Episode 3Wanted: The Interpol Files
Episode 4State of Fear
Episode 5Exposed: China's Spycam Porn
Episode 6Gen Z Under Fire
Episode 7Shadow War: Islamic State Group in Africa
Episode 8Eels: Billion Dollar Babies
Episode 9Target Tehran
Episode 10Life on the Spectrum
Episode 11Stolen Lives
Episode 12Abandoned: Searching for Soldier Dad
Episode 13Save Our Dogs
Episode 14Lebanon’s Black Wednesday
Episode 15Pray Raid Repeat
Episode 16Manosphere Messiahs
Episode 17Surviving Biafra
Episode 18The Careless Machine: Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret
Episode 19Ukraine Survivors: Finding My Abusers
Episode 20Tundu Lissu: A Fight Too Far?
Episode 21Inside Iran: The People and The Power
Episode 22South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover Up: Episode 1
Episode 23The Taliban: Coming out of the Shadows
Episode 24South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover Up: Episode 2
Episode 25Nigeria: Faith, Fear and Fake News
Episode 26Catching My Teacher
Episode 27El Salvador: Security At Any Cost?
Episode 28Gaza's Ceasefire Summer
Episode 29Goodbye Raila
Episode 30Shadowmen: Russians working with Ukraine