A Kenyan activist, Boniface Mwangi, has recounted his harrowing experience of alleged sexual torture while detained in Tanzania last month after showing solidarity with opposition politician Tundu Lissu. He described being stripped, beaten, and assaulted, and claimed he was threatened with footage of the abuse being leaked if he spoke out. The Tanzanian police chief dismissed Mwangi’s allegations as hearsay, while rights groups have called for investigations into the reported abuses amid growing repression by the Tanzanian government ahead of upcoming elections.
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