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Two journalists were detained in Tanzania on Wednesday, with no indication given that they were taken from their hotel room.
Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo were in Dar es Salaam on a fact-finding mission with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). .
"@muthokimumo and I are being taken for interrogation by Tanzanian authorities and we do not know why? #DarEsSalaam @SAPresidentPR @CPJAfrica @pressfreedom," Quintal tweeted at around 10:30 pm local time.
Quintal serves as CPJ's Africa program coordinator; Mumo is the group's sub-Saharan Africa representative.
A few hours later, a tweet went out of Quintal's account that read "We are going back to our hotel."
But according to CPJ, there is no evidence that Quintal was actually released.
"Courtney Radsch, CPJ advocacy director, told BuzzFeed News in an email. "Our sources indicate they remain in detention, and we have not been in contact with either of them."
Quintal's Twitter account has been suspended. Twitter did not immediately answer to a request for how to get started.
It is currently unclear why Mumo and Quintal were detained. CPJ has not provided details about what the two have been investigating in Tanzania. An email to the Tanzanian Police Force about the detention was not immediately answered.
A spokesman for Tanzania's Department of International Relations and Cooperation told News24 that he was trying to gather more information about what had happened.
"We are concerned for the safety of our colleagues Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo, who were detained while legally visiting Tanzania," Joel Simon, CPJ 's Executive Director, said in a statement. "We call on the authorities to immediately release them and return their passports."
