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To Tanzania's global partners:

As citizens from across the world, we are deeply alarmed by the human rights violations being perpetrated by Tanzanian security forces. We call on you to immediately:
  • Condemn abuse and demand independent investigations;
  • Use your financial leverage to ensure credible safeguards are in place;
  • Tie all future aid to enforceable human rights standards.
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Stop torture in Tanzania
“I came back broken, but I refuse to be silenced”.

These are the words of Boniface Mwangi, a human rights defender who was recently detained, tortured and raped by Tanzanian security forces. His “crime”? Protesting the sham trial of an opposition leader. Security forces seized and tortured him and a fellow activist, Agather, for days before dumping them on the side of the road.

This is not an exception. With general elections approaching, repression is intensifying: arbitrary arrests, harassment, and torture of youth leaders, human rights defenders, and opposition members. The Tanzanian government will keep doing it —again and again— unless it faces real consequences.

That’s where we come in. Tanzania receives massive investments from global partners—investments that carry enormous weight during an election year. Right now, the International Monetary Fund is about to hand over a staggering US$441 million to the country. But how can they keep signing checks while people are being tortured?

Let’s demand that the IMF—and all international partners—press pause and call out the Tanzanian government. It has happened before: just a year ago, the European Union withdrew funding in response to human rights abuses. Now it’s time to raise our voices again and make sure history repeats itself, for the right reasons:

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