Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi speaks of 'sexual torture' in Tanzania

Boniface Mwangi says he has decided to speak despite the "shame and guilt" of being "sexually tortured".

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A Kenyan activist has told the BBC that he is "struggling to be alive" after allegedly being sexually tortured in detention in Tanzania last month.

Boniface Mwangi said he had decided to speak despite the "shame and guilt of being sodomised with all manner of things".

Mwangi said he was held in Tanzania after going to the country to show solidarity with detained opposition politician Tundu Lissu.

At a press conference in Kenya's capital, Mwangi tearfully claimed that he was stripped naked, hung upside down, beaten on his feet and sexually assaulted while detained.