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Kenya: Tanzania Releases Ugandan Atuhaire a Day After Freeng Boniface Mwangi
- On Thursday evening, Tanzania released Agather Atuhaire, a rights activist from Uganda, after detaining her for one day in Dar es Salaam.
- Atuhaire and Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi were arrested while attending opposition leader Tundu Lissu's court appearance amid questions about their presence in Tanzania.
- Mwangi was freed a day before Atuhaire and later reported being tortured and in pain, raising concerns about their treatment by Tanzanian security forces.
- The head of the Tanzania Law Society initially announced that both activists had been deported, but later corrected this, stating they remain in immigration detention while efforts continue to address their case.
- Their detention reflects increasing government actions against critics during President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration, who has expressed concerns about external involvement in Tanzania’s internal matters.
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Tanzania must investigate Tanzania must investigate torture and forcible deportation of Kenyan and Ugandan activists
Tanzanian authorities must investigate the arbitrary arrest, torture, incommunicado detention, and forcible deportation of human rights defenders Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi, Amnesty International said today.Agather Atuhaire, from Uganda, and Kenyan national Boniface Mwangi arrived in Tanzania on 18 May as part of a delegation to observe the trial of jailed opposition politician Tundu Lissu. After being arrested by immigration and polic…
Kenya recognizes that it "cooperates" with Uganda in the kidnapping of one of Uganda's main opponents, Kizza Besigye. Suspended for treason, the former personal doctor of the Ugandan president - now an opponent - risks capital punishment. Her lawyer, and former Kenyan Minister of Justice, denounces "out-of-law" arrangements between "rogue states" in East Africa.
The Straits Times
Kenyan, Ugandan activists still in custody in Tanzania, law group says
NAIROBI - A Kenyan and a Ugandan activist detained in Tanzania after travelling to observe a court appearance by a jailed opposition leader are still in custody, Tanzania's Law Society said on Wednesday, after previously saying they had been deported. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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