Comoros: former president Sambi asks Tanzania for help

Former President of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.

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Former Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi made the front page of a Tanzanian daily on Tuesday after a letter he addressed to the President of the United Republic of Tanzania was made public.

The former Comorian head of state, imprisoned at his home since 2018, deplores the non-compliance with the law in the treatment he is undergoing and asks for help from Tanzania, because his doctors keep recommending treatment for him. unavailable on site.

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Many excerpts from this letter were published in the article. "

This is the type of invocations drafted by former President Sambi in the letter to the Tanzanian head of state. His lawyer confirms that this letter was sent to Samia Suluhu last month.

Already in January 2020, there was talk of the former president being released for health reasons and it was the United Republic of Tanzania which vouched for his support. According to Mr. Sambi's family, this letter was intended to reactivate contact with this friendly country whose Comorian government ignores all requests about the former president

. And this while Comorian law provides for provisional detention of a maximum of eight months.

In his letter to the president, the prisoner explains that he is above all a citizen, a father who has not seen his children for years and whose most basic rights are violated.

Ahmed Abdallah Sambi repeats that his health continues to decline and that he is locked up for political reasons.

According to him, the very principle of human rights is not respected.

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• Samia Suluhu Hassan