Tanzania: Activists imprisoned without charge in LGBTI crackdown must be released
| Publisher | Amnesty International |
| Publication Date | 20 October 2017 |
| Cite as | Amnesty International, Tanzania: Activists imprisoned without charge in LGBTI crackdown must be released, 20 October 2017, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/59edc8b2a.html [accessed 22 May 2023] |
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After the Tanzanian authorities today detained without charge a group of 12 health and human rights activists and publicly accused them of "promoting homosexuality", Amnesty International's Director of Global Issues and Research Audrey Gaughran said:
"This peaceful group of activists and lawyers will now spend the weekend behind bars despite having done nothing wrong - as illustrated by the fact the authorities have failed to even find a crime to charge them with. All of these people unlawfully detained must be immediately and unconditionally released.
"These baseless detentions are the latest example of the Tanzanian authorities' ongoing, unlawful witch hunt against the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community," said Audrey Gaughran.
