The U.S.government has sanctioned Tanzania’s Police Force Senior Assistant Commissioner Faustine Mafwele over the alleged detention, torture, and sexual assault of activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan counterpart Agather Atuhaire.

In a statement on Thursday, May 21, US Secretary of
State Marco Rubio said the US government has
credible information that Mafwele was involved in the
torture of Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and his
Ugandan counterpart Agather Atuhaire while in
Tanzania.

Rubio noted that the senior Tanzanian police official
will be barred from entering the US following the
sanction.