Kenyan activist Boniface Mvangi talks about “sexual torture” in Tanzania

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The Kenyan activist said the BBC that he was “fighting for the living” after the sexually detained detainees were allegedly supported in Tanzania last month.

Bonifats Mvangi said he had decided to speak, despite “shame and guilt that he was sadomized by all things.”

Mvangi said he was held in Tanzania after a hike to the country to show solidarity with the detained opposition politician Tunda Lis.

At a press conference in the capital of Kenya Mvangi with tears claimed that he had been deprived of his naked, hung up his bottom, beaten on his feet and had sexual attacks during his detention.

The police chief in the head of Tanzania, the gift -es -sa -Salaam challenged the Mangui account and told the BBC that they were “opinions” and “strangers” coming from the activists.

“If they were here, I would do them, I would ask them what they say they mean … In law, these things are called strangers or other people’s evidence,” said Dzhuman Muliro.

He said the Mwangs should report to the authorities for the investigation.

President Tanzania’s government himself Suluha Hassan was accused of groups of the fact that they became more and more repressive on the eve of the October presidential and parliamentary elections.

Regional law groups called for an investigation, and Amnesty International said the Tanzania authorities should consider those responsible for “inhuman” treatment.

Mvangi said he was owned by Tanzania’s authorities for several days together with Uganda Agatater activist Athaer, who also said Rape in detention.

On Monday, she attended a press conference in Nairobi, where Mvangi described her sexual violence in graphic details.

He said his crushes would be sexual attacks on him and ordered him to say “Asante” (thank you in Swahili) to his president.

Mvangi added that the officers told him that they were all filmed and will trace the footage when he was talking about what he had survived.

Mvangi told the BBC Newsday that torture left him in mental flour.

“You have a lot of nightmares, you have a lot of thoughts, and you are alone in the dark and you think you’re going to kill. So all the whole mental longing lives with you,” he said.

Mvangi said he wanted his medical documents to be published to “what happened to me, never happened to anyone else.”

“I have wounds all over my body, I have on private parts of my wound, I have on my feet, I have two broken fingers, I have fractures … That’s why I still fight.”

Mvangi and Atuhaer were among several activists who traveled to Tanzania two weeks ago in solidarity from the fox who acted in court on charges of treason that he denied.

It requires extensive changes, saying that the current laws do not allow free and fair elections that the government denies.

Fox was arrested on April 9 after the call of “without reforms or elections”.

Mvangi said the BBC that their visit to Tanzania had to emphasize the “fake business” of the fox, adding that it was not perceived by the authorities.

At the time, President Hassan warned that he would not allow activists from neighboring countries to “intervene” Tanzania.

The location of the Mvangi and Atuhar was unknown when they were carried out, which caused a wide condemnation.

Mvangi said his “kidnapping” is shocking in how brazen was the way he was “chosen from a very famous hotel”.

“So he was abducted during a wide daylight and never knowing where I was, and I was still tortured, means that the Tanzania government does not care what people think about it,” he said BBC.

Earlier, Atuhar said that, despite the fact that Uganda was “very dictatorial”, she did not imagine that “found the worst foreign country, the worst government.”

Mvangi said their experience showed that “as broken” countries of East Africa.

“So, it makes me more Panapican in this struggle,” he said to the BBC.

The US Department of Affairs Bureau has previously stated that it was deeply concerned about the stiff manner with two activists, noting that at 2024, “Athaer was recognized” in 2024 as an international awarded woman. “

Other activists, including former Minister of Justice in Kenya Marta Carois and former chief Judge Willie Mutung, were blocked from the entrance and were deported from the International Airport to the gift -us -Salam.

Additional Munira Hussein report in gift -es -Salame.