Human rights defender Vava deported from Tanzania

ZIMBABWEAN human rights defender Blessing Vava was on Tuesday detained, questioned, labelled “a security risk” before being deported from Tanzania without explanation by immigration authorities.

Vava, who is the director for Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, arrived at Julius Nyerere International Airport on a “solidarity mission” to engage with civil society groups and social movements as the East African nation prepared to go to the polls, held yesterday.

These groups were reportedly facing repression under President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government in the lead-up to the country’s contentious elections.

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