Stripped and silenced: Tanzania’s savage, shameful war on freedom advocates

In places where bullets trump ballots and leaders outlast opposition, such a Tanzania would be revolutionary.

Photo credit: Joseph Nyagah | Nation Media Group

They came to observe a trial. They left with bruises and the stain of one of East Africa’s most chilling episodes of state-sanctioned violence.

It was supposed to be routine — a symbolic gesture of solidarity. But it turned savage, and what should have been a day in court became a descent into hell.