Mozambique military airbase and forcefully bundled into a Mozambique military aircraft, the ~~auffalo ", in the presence of Kenyan and Tanzanian Police Officers . 6. They allege that the aircraft landed at Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar-es-Saalam , and upon their arrival in Dar-es-Salaam , they were blindfolded, bundled into waiting vehicles and driven to three different locations and locked up, still handcuffed with hands behind their backs. They add that on 19 January 2006, they were again bundled into heavily guarded vehicles, handcuffed with hands behind their backs and driven under tight heavily armed police presence to Moshi, at the Kilimanjaro International Airport Police Station . where they allege having been submitted to severe beatings with heavy sticks and metal rods , torture by use of electric shocks from a special torture police squad, led by one Inspector Duwan Nyanda , and refused access to communication with their lawyers who came several times to meet them. 7. The Applicants further claim that they were eventually charged for a range of serious criminal offences, which trials have been unduly and inordinately delayed and riddled with multiple violations of various rights. 8 According to them, two of the charges were later withdrawn by the Respondent. that is, Criminal Case 647 of 2006 and Criminal Case 881 of 2006, and the Respondent entered a nolle proseq ui in respect of the dropped murder charge in Criminal Case 10 of 2006 in accordance with the provisions of Section 91 (1) of the Crimina l Procedure Act of the Respondent State. 9. They submit that three (3) of them were released after the murder charge was withdrawn for lack of evidence, five (5) were subsequently convicted for conspiracy to commit an offence , contrary to Section 384 of the Penal Code, and armed robbery , contrary to Section 287A of the Penal Code, and sentenced to 30 years in prison , 5