JOHANNESBURG —At a packed press conference this week two East African activists wiped away tears as they detailed their alleged sexual assault and torture while in detention in Tanzania.

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire - who was given an "International Woman of Courage" award by the US State Department last year - said they had traveled to neighboring Tanzania in mid-May to monitor the "sham" court case of an opposition leader there.

They allege they were both subsequently detained by a state security official and men in plain clothes. Mwangi described in graphic detail how he was stripped naked, hung upside down from a metal pole and sexually assaulted with a number of objects.

He says while this was going on his was made to shout phrases pra

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