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Pay rights activist $99,000, African court orders Dar

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By Kwanta Douglas –

African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, on Thursday, ordered the Tanzanian government to pay $99,500 to a former NGO director who was wrongfully expelled from the country in 2014.

Anudo Ochieng Anudo was awarded $63,500 in compensation for lost salary income by a court in Dar es Salaam.

He was also granted $5,640 in damages for the loss of his sawmill business in Tanzania, as well as damage to two automobiles and one motorcycle he possessed before being deported in September 2014.

The court additionally granted him $30,380 for moral prejudice experienced by him and his family members—his parents and four children—as indirect victims of the unconstitutional deportation order.

Mr. Anudo was the director of the Tanzania Human Rights Commission.

Mr Anudo complained that though he and his parents were Tanzanian citizens by birth, he was illegally expelled from the country and his passport confiscated when he refused to pay immigration officers “an amount of money they asked for.”

According to a court summary, he was deported to Kenya but was thereafter declared as “being in an illegal situation by the High Court of Kenya”.

Since then, he had been “hiding” in an area at the border of Tanzania and Kenya.

Judge Ben Kioko said Anudo’s loss of employment and income were a “direct result of the violation of his rights.”

The Judge, however, declined the applicant’s request for further compensation due to loss of income from a secondary school he owned and ran in Tanzania, and two houses under construction that he had to abandon.

Mr Anudo had “failed to provide an estimate of income generated from the school and proof of such income”, the judge said.

AFP

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