(Corrects paragraph 5 to say Lissu has pleaded not guilty) DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting. Lissu, who came second in the last presidential poll in 2020, was arrested in April and charged with treason over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on the public to rebel and disrupt the elections later this month. Lissu had vowed to boycott the vote unless significant reforms were made to an electoral process which he said favours the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, which has been in power since independence in 1961. Lissu, who leads the CHADEMA opposition party, survived bei

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