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Tanzania Under Fire: Urgent Call to Free Lemi Limbu

8/22/2025

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Tanzania faces growing pressure to release Lemi Limbu, imprisoned for 13 years for her daughter's murder, as her health declines.
Limbu's 2019 conviction was nullified, but retrial in 2022 ignored her intellectual disabilities.
Human rights groups criticize her sentence, citing it as a case of injustice under Tanzania's mandatory death penalty and highlighting her history of abuse.

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Tanzania faces growing pressure to release Lemi Limbu, imprisoned for 13 years for her daughter's murder, as her health declines.
Limbu's 2019 conviction was nullified, but retrial in 2022 ignored her intellectual disabilities.
Human rights groups criticize her sentence, citing it as a case of injustice under Tanzania's mandatory death penalty and highlighting her history of abuse.