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Ugandan activist alleges she was raped while in Tanzanian detention
- Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire was tortured, sexually assaulted, and smeared with excrement by Tanzanian security forces after her arrest in Dar es Salaam on Monday while attending opposition leader Tundu Lissu's trial.
- Her detention followed warnings by Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan against foreign activists, whom she accused of attempting to interfere in Tanzania's affairs amid upcoming October elections.
- Atuhaire and Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi were blindfolded, chained, and subjected to brutal beatings and humiliations such as being filmed to instil fear, while Mwangi struggled to walk upon release to Nairobi.
- The US State Department and Amnesty International expressed deep concern and called for urgent investigations into the reported torture and mistreatment of Atuhaire and Mwangi, while Tanzanian authorities gave no response.
- Atuhaire stated she feels no shame and will file a formal complaint against Tanzania, emphasizing the need for justice over shame despite enduring severe physical and psychological trauma.
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On 19 May, a Ugandan lawyer, who had attended the trial of the country's main opponent, was arrested, beaten, raped and covered with excrement, a treatment that confirmed the regime's repressive drift.
Kampala. Undressed, beaten to the point of being unable to walk, sexually assaulted and covered with excrement, the award-winning Ugandan activist Agother Atuhaire recounted the acts of torture she claims to have suffered this week at the hands of Tanzanian security forces. On Friday morning she was abandoned by Tanzanian agents near the Ugandan border, after suffering what she described as a brutal ordeal.
Arrested in Tanzania where she had come to support the opposition leader, Agather Atuhaire, winner of an international Women of Courage Award, suffered the worst outrages, but she will not leave her executioners "the pleasure" to see her broken.
Ugandan activist details torture in Tanzania
KAMPALA - Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.
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Sexually assaulted and smeared in excrement: Uganda activist details torture in Tanzania
Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.
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