Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.

Atuhaire, who won an International Women of Courage Award from the United States last year, was arrested on Monday in Tanzania's business hub Dar es Salaam.

She had travelled there to support opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who is on trial for treason, facing a potential death penalty, ahead of elections in October.

Atuhaire was abandoned early Friday by Tanzanian agents near the Ugandan border after a brutal ordeal, she said.

"What happened in Tanzania stays in Tanzania," she said she was told. "We have videos of you."

Atuhaire was arrested along with Boniface Mwangi, a well-known rights activist from Kenya who also wanted to attend the trial.

Police told her: "Whites are sending you to destabilise our country," she told AFP in an interview in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Friday.

After being interrogated, Atuhaire and Mwangi were blindfolded and driven to an........

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