World Alert On Tanzania’s Politically Motivated Abductions, Arbitrary Arrests
15 March, 2024 — If ever you believed the hype and the window-dressing statements emanating from Tanzania’s ruling elite, you’ll want to keep an eye on what’s unfolding in Tanzania via Clubhouse and X, both of which are throttled by the Tanzania regime to stem the flow of information, resulting in Tanzanians based inside the country having to use VPNs, which now, the regime has gone and criminalized.
Much as the Samia Suluhu Hassan regime tries to silence dissent, the daggers on the regime are out in full swing and raging hotter than ever before on social media, it being the most effective way to call out the regime.
We’ve just come from an unlawful arrest of a young Tanzanian activist, Deusdedith Soka, read my recent article Tanzanian Police Steal Mobile Phones & Laptops from Activists They Arrest, and this morning at 4 am, low and behold, the regime’s operatives landed on the home of prominent award-winning lawyer Joseph Oleshangay, with intent to abduct. He wasn’t home.
Oleshangay has been fighting for his Maasai community who are being forcibly evicted from their ancestral land to make way for so-called investors backed by corrupt Tanzanian politicians who sell their land to foreigners.
We urge Tanzania’s development partners, donors, and the international community–including tourists–who in one way or another put money into the coffers of this dictatorship, to stop and think again. I wouldn’t imagine anyone with a good head on their shoulder would want to help fund a regime that grossly violates human rights.
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