Overview

• Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire say they were abducted in Dar es Salaam on May 19 while supporting opposition leader Tundu Lissu and held incommunicado for days.
• They charge that officers forced them to strip, tied them upside down, inflicted beatings and sexual assault, inserting objects into their rectums and coercing them to thank President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
• On May 22 the activists were deported to Kenya and Uganda via Horohoro and Mutukula border crossings after three lawyers from the Tanganyika Law Society were denied access.
• President Samia Suluhu Hassan has characterized foreign activists as intruders attempting to interfere in Tanzania’s affairs and defended security services’ actions.
• Civil society organizations and human rights groups across East Africa are demanding independent probes into the conduct of Tanzanian security forces.