Salmin Amour [SEP] position held
Salmin Amour
Salmin Amour (born 1942) is a Tanzanian politician who was President of Zanzibar from 25 October 1990 to 8 November 2000. He was elected in 1990 as the sole candidate and received 98 percent of the votes. In Tanzania's first multi-party elections in 1995, Amour was accused of rigging the Zanzibari presidential election by opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad.
in the 1995, 2005 and 2010 presidential elections.
In 1997, he won the Mkunazini by-election to the Zanzibar House of Representatives (ZHoR). On the last day of the campaign, some opposition supporters were arrested and charged first with sedition and then treason. He too was arrested, and Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. The Court of Appeal ruled that a treasonous offence cannot be committed "against Zanzibar as [it] is not a sovereign state." President Salmin Amour ordered their