Agather Atuhaire: Ugandan activist alleges she was raped while in Tanzanian detention

Tanzanian authorities are not commenting on the allegations, which include sexual assault.

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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 earlier remarks of her rights group who said she showed "indications of torture", Agather Atuhaire alleged that people dressed in plain clothes "blindfolded" her, after which she was hit, "violently" stripped and sexually assaulted.

Atuhaire had been held incommunicado in Tanzania alongside fellow Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi, who was on Thursday found at the border with his home country.

The Tanzanian authorities have not commented.