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The government of Tanzania has released Ugandan human rights activist, Agather Atuhaire.
Atuhaire has been missing for about a week since she was apprehended along with fellow activist Boniface Mwangi.
The duo and other lawyers and activists were initially detained at the Central Police Station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
This Friday morning, Atuhaire resurfaced. She was reportedly found near the Uganda-Tanzania border.
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His reemergence followed an official complaint filed by the government of Uganda through Col Fred Mwesigye, the High Commissioner to Tanzania.
In a letter to the Tanzanian Police, Mwesigye sought “information on the above-mentioned Ugandan national in detention at your facility and permission for the Mission staff to visit and talk to her and ascertain the possibility of her release and return to Uganda."
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Free at last
The news of Atuhaire's release brought relief to scores of her colleagues in Uganda who had been protesting online.
"We are relieved to inform the public that (Agather) has been found. She was abandoned at the border by Tanzanian authorities," wrote Agora Discourse, her organisation
Godwin Toko, her colleague, or Atuhaire's said he had managed to speak to her through her sister's phone.