In recent months, media outlets have been reporting on a high wave of defections, where a number of opposition politicians quit their parties and joined ruling party (CCM). The latest is a defection of Chadema Party MP from among prominent city constituency, a high level Civic United Front (CUF) leader, and other opposition MPs and Councilors where all announced to step down from oppositions and joining the ruling party (CCM).

On the 5th of August 2018 Boris Johnson wrote an article in the British newspaper TheTelegraph “…..If you tell me that the burka is oppressive, then I am with you. If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their faces, then I totally agree…is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes..."

In a bloody incident, last Friday, which took place in a Shi’a Masjid of Gardiz city, Paktia province of Afghanistan, two gunmen first opened fire on the worshipers and later detonated their explosive wests among the crowd who were fleeing the Masjid. As a result, 34 people were reportedly killed and around 94 others were injured.

Human Rights Memorial site, memory.org, reported that the number of detainees accused of belonging to Hizb ut Tahrir in Crimea and Sevastopol reached more than 28 members as well as locals of Kyrgyz origin, four of whom have been tried with unjust sentences, 12 are in trial and 14 are under investigation. They are distributed by region as follows: