🕵🏾♂️ Intelligence Brief | Tanzania's Deep State Exposed: Presidential Adviser, Police and Intelligence Bosses Named in Regional Torture Lawsuit
Ujasusi Blog’s East Africa Monitoring Team | 🗓️20 July 2025 |🕜 0215 BST
🗂️ Summary
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) is now the theatre of a landmark legal confrontation that is shaking the political foundations of the Tanzanian state. Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire and Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi filed a formal petition alleging grave human rights violations — including abduction, sexual torture, and unlawful deportation — committed on Tanzanian soil by actors within the state’s security architecture. The legal reference, which names a dozen high-ranking Tanzanian officials, threatens not just legal and reputational consequences, but could also reshape the internal political balance within Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), test President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s reformist credentials, and upend Tanzania’s standing in the East African Community.