Responding to reports of the arrest of 39 members of the Maasai community and parliamentarian Emmanuel Lekishon Shangai in Endulen in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and their unlawful detention in unknown locations without access to their lawyers, Amnesty International Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere Chagutah said: “Tanzanian authorities must end this new wave of arrests and detentions, which constitute renewed repression against the Maasai Indigenous Community
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Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel OleShangay, CCM, on Monday, August 21, surrendered himself to Arusha Central Police Station after accusations that he had a role on the attack of journalists.