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Tanzanian Security Agencies Detain SADC CSOs Activists During Summit

4 years agoSun, 18 Aug 2019 07:11:47 GMT
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Tanzanian Security Agencies Detain SADC CSOs Activists During Summit

Tanzania’s security agents detained and interrogated members of the SADC Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The 48 activists drawn for the SADC countries were participants for the 39th SADC Summit hosted by Tanzania.

A statement released by the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition reads in part:

About 48 participants to the 39th SADC summit, some of them being members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa are under interrogation by security agencies.

Some of them started being interrogated yesterday, 16th August 2019, while others (37) were to be interrogated this morning, 17 August 2019.

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Some of them had their accommodations searched midnight today in the hotels where they were sleeping in Dar es Salaam.

… We urge security officers to free these rights defenders/CSOs because continuing to hold them will paint a bad image to the nation.

We also urge the Tanzanian police force to speed up their investigation/interrogation and allow the delegates to participate in the ongoing meetings or any planned activity.

To do otherwise would be interpreted as efforts to obstruct these delegates from engaging fully in SADC meetings and other activities planned for today which will eventually distort the image of the country.

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