Two East African activists plan to sue the Government of Tanzania for illegal detention and torture due to their treatment during the support of the opposition politician in May.
Boniface Mwangi, Kenya and Agather Atuhair, Ugandan, sent a sheltered wave around the region at the time they claimed that they were sexually assaulted and, in Atehairet’s case, in the case of Athaire, smeared in excretion in the excretion. “(Authorities) lead you through sexual torture,” Mwangi said at the time.
Even in the region, they accustomed to current abuses of rights, obviously targeting foreigners by Tanzan authorities marked a new and worrying turn in the assessment of critics and opponents of President Samia Suluhu.
In interviews with Guardian, Mwangi and Atuhaire They said they were planning to launch cases in the Tanzeric Court, as well as through regional and international roads, including the East African Court of Justice and the African Court on the Rights of Human and Peoples.
“We won’t let them escape with that,” Mwangi said, a famous Kenyan photorector and activist. Atuhaire, lawyer, journalist and critic of the Government of President Ugandana, Iover Museveni, said, “We need to keep these guys responsible for knowing that you can’t break people like”
Mwangi and Atuhaire, who traveled to Tanzania to attend the opposition politician to Tundu Lisa 19. May, say that the people who described as security officers, illegally detained and FE physically abused.
Mwangi said that his beating began in the Immigration Office that in the afternoon when the Security Officer slipped and hit him several times in the presence of Ataire and three lawyers. He said he was attacked again in the police station, where security staff accused activists that they traveled to Tanzania to disrupt peace and destroy the country.
“Real torture,” Mwangi said, that evening, when a group of seven men, “he described as if described by blood eyes and smell alcohol and binding and led them and took them to compound.
Both activists said that they were ordered to be removed and suspended upside down, and then they were affected by wooden boards in the soles. They said that their attackers had drenched the screams of the Mwangi underwear in her mouth and put a cloth in Athair’s mouth.
The activists said that their attackers inserted what they seemed to be their hands or other objects in their rectumes and smeared the aleccess on Atair’s body, and then photographed them and told them not to discover what happened. Two days later they were rejected in the boundaries of their countries.
“I didn’t see us to go out there,” Atuhair said. “It was really, really painful.”
Mwangi said, “Nothing in my head or in my life, I didn’t prepare me for it. I was beaten before I beat me. My house was bombed.” I saw all kinds of extremities and cruises. “
The guard approached the Tanishan police spokesman for the comment. Tanzanian representative in the UN, Abdallah Opportunities last week, told The meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva: “Although these allegations against the government, we take on torture, sexual abuse and abuse and abuse very seriously. The government currently investigates and, if it is determined, they will be responsible.”
A series of killings, kidnappings, arrests And the torture in the past year requested a widespread condemnation locally and internationally. Among the killed was Mohamed Ali Kibao, a member of the Secretariat of the main opposition supporting support, which was found beaten and led his face with acid in September.
In April, Father Charles Kitima, a Catholic priest who was vocal about democratic reforms and rights issues, brutally attacked near his residence. Earlier this month, the Government dreeming the Church, which belonged to Josefat Gwajim, after calling illegal detention and forced disappearances and announced a prayer to seek to the divine intervention for Hasan and other national leaders. And last week, two men who announced that discuss democracy and management at Youtube were arrested due to “improper use of social media”.
There is no evidence of Hassan’s personal involvement in incidents, of which the government condemned. Nevertheless, opposition politicians and rights campaigns say that its administration monitors return to the tactics of their executioner based on fear, John Magufui. Earlier this month, he warned activists from neighboring countries against “attempted destabilizing” Tanzania.
Maria Sarungi Tsehai, activist for Tanzanian rights, described targeting non-tanzans as unseen and “sign of huge panic” in the part of Hassan administration in launching their first presidential election test.
“What we see is a very insecure presidential candidate,” Tsehai said, who lives in Samobuku in Nairobi. “It must be tilted on that security apparatus. And she decided not to have free or fair choice. He just wants to get another term. And that decision comes to a very difficult price.”
Last year Tsehai was hijacked off the streets Kenyan’s capital by armed people and was afraid that she would become the last victim of talks about forced deportations from Kenya. However, it was later released for a short time without crossing the border after the news of her kidnapping quickly spread on social media.
In months after Hassan drank in function after Magulheri’s death 2021. The President gained domestic and international approval for harmonization with the opposition and reversing some magops of repressive policy of magufini. But since then a repression wave has deleted hope of permanent reforms.
Hasan’s CCM party ruled the country of independence. The opposition and civil society have long been called for the reform of the Constitution, which critics say the president and the ruling parties of excessive power are given.
Earlier this year, Lissa was arrested and charged with betrayal and cyber crimes, and his party Chadema – called for a boycott of this year’s election, unless election reforms were made – disqualified that he had been disqualified that he participated.
Mwangi said that CCM acted for self-preservation. “What courses trying to do is winning any means necessary,” he said. “Reads from the dictator’s manual (which says)” brutalis and beat people into submission. “
Atuhaire – whose work in the presentation of corruption has won the International Women in the United States last year – said that its and Mwangi experience showed “the level of impunity” in Tanzania.
Activists are still Care injuries on their feet and other parts of their bodies, except having a psychological trauma. They said they decided to talk about their alleged abuse to shine light on the condition of Tanzanians who have gone through similar experiences.
“There is no embarrassment or stigma that is more important than persecuting justice,” Atuhair said. “Justice is a driving factor – these people must be responsible for what they did to us, for what they made Tanzanins.”
