The Eastern Africa Rights Groups condemn Tanzania, saying that “abandoned” human right activists show signs of torture.
A Uganda human rights activist, arrested in Tanzania after traveling to the country to support an opposition politician in a treason, has been tortured and abandoned on the border, according to an NGO.
The Uganda Rights Group, Agora’s speech said that activist and journalist Agather Atuhaaire had been “abandoned at the border by Tanzania authorities” and showed signs of torture.
The statement echoes reports on a Kenya activist detained at the same time and published a day before, and supports the complaints of a repression against Ast Africa democracy.
Atuhaaire had traveled to Tanzania along with Kenya’s anti -corruption activist, Boniface Mwangi to support the opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, who appeared in court on Monday.
Both were arrested shortly after the audience and celebrated incommunicado.
The Tanzania police had initially surpassed local rights groups that the couple would be deported by the air. However, Mwangi was discovered on Thursday on a road in northern Tanzania, near the border of Kenya.
Agora’s speech said he was “relieved by informing the public who has found Agather.” However, the co -founder of the Rights Group Jim Spire Sintongo confirmed to the AFP news agency on Friday that they were “indications of torture.”
‘Worse than dogs’
The president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been accused of increasing authoritarianism, in the midst of the Conerns increasing with respect to the democracy of East Africa.
The activists traveling to the Lissu path accused Tanzania or “collaborated” with Kenya and Uganda in their “total erosion of democratic principles.”
Several high -profile political justices have highlighted the Hassan Rights Registry, who plans to seek re -election in October.
The leader of Tanzania has said that his government is committed to respecting human rights. However, he warned foreign activists this week would not be tolerated in the country when Lissu appeared before the court.
“Do not allow people with poor quality from other countries to cross the line here,” Hassan instructed security services.
Several Kenya activists, including a former justice minister, said Dene denied entry to Tanzania while trying to travel to attend the trial.
After his return to the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, Mwangi said he and Atuhaaire had suffered a brutal experience.
“We were both treated worse than the dogs, chained, with their eyes and underwent very horrible torture,” he told reporters.
“The Government of Tanzania cannot hide behind national superiority to justify serious crimes and the flying of human rights violations against their own citizens and other Africans of the East,” said the International Commission of Jurists in a statement.
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