Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - A prominent Tanzanian activist was released after she was taken away by three armed men on the streets of Nairobi, her husband said, accusing Tanzania's national intelligence service of responsibility.
Maria Sarungi Tsehai, a human rights defender critical of
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, was kidnapped on Sunday, January 12, by
three armed men and taken into a black car in the Kilimani neighbourhood on
Sunday afternoon, Amnesty International said.
"I am now safe, many thanks to everyone," Sarungi
Tsehai wrote on X several hours later.
Her brief detention comes as both Tanzania and Kenya stand
accused of abducting critics.
Sarungi Tsehai's husband David Tsehai said the couple sought
refuge in Nairobi four years ago after fleeing Tanzania.
"It was the scariest moment of my life," he said
in a video clip shared by the Law Society of Kenya late on Sunday.
"There is no doubt in my mind (it is) the thugs of the
Tanzania Information and Security Services (TISS) who are behind this."
Amnesty International researcher Roland Ebole said Sarungi
Tsehai's abduction was another example of "transnational repression that
is happening on Kenyan soil," accusations Kenyan authorities deny.
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