Nigeria, May 27 -- ZAM, a Netherlands-based media organisation, has called on the Dutch government to suspend its immigration support programme in Tanzania and stop supporting the repression of human rights.

In a statement issued on Monday, the media platform accused the Netherlands of "assisting dictators" under the guise of migration control.

Its demands follow the arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and deportation of Agather Atuhaire, a journalist with the Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors (NAIRE), and Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi.

ZAM described the act as a "state-enabled brutality" and linked the abuse to the "Dutch-backed immigration capacity-building project in Tanzania known as Project Hos...