Agather Atuhaire is a Ugandan lawyer, human rights defender and freelance journalist. Born in 1988, Agather is known for her fearless reporting on corruption, natural resource exploitation ...

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Ugandan rights group Agora Discourse said on Friday that activist and journalist Agather Atuhaire had been “abandoned at the border by Tanzanian authorities” and showed signs of torture.

Atuhaire was found abandoned at the border on Thursday night after being held in custody since Monday, Agora Centre for Research, the Uganda-based rights group that she leads, posted on X.

Ms Agather Atuhaire, an activist with Agora Discourse, was arrested alongside Kenyan photojournalist/activist Boniface Mwangi, after their presence in Tanzania was queried.

Agather Atuhaire said, “They removed all my clothes and left me in my underwear. They beat me. Then I was taken to a clinic, and they inserted stuff into me. I don’t know what it was.” ...

I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating activists against authoritarianism. She was petite but powerful, bruised but ...

Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands ...

Kenyan human rights advocate Boniface Mwangi and award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire spoke out during a June 2 press conference in Nairobi, detailing the alleged physical and sexual ...

Agather Atuhaire, Boniface Mwangi's arrest in Tanzania unites region in condemnation National May 19 On Tuesday, Tanzania Law Society President Boniface Mwabukusi had said Mwangi and Atuhaire had ...

A Ugandan activist who was arrested and held for days in Tanzania and later found at the border between the two countries has told the BBC that she was raped while in detention. Expanding on the ...