Protests sweep Kenyan cities as East African nation commemorates young victims of extrajudicial killings
The death of blogger Albert Ojwang has become a lightning rod for Kenyans still mourning the deaths of protesters killed at last year’s demonstrations, blamed on security forces, along with rights groups claims of dozens of unexplained abductions.
Police to be charged with murder of blogger’s death in custody as Kenyan president warns protesters
Albert Ojwang died earlier this month following his arrest as part of an investigation triggered by a complaint by the deputy national police chief, Eliud Lagat.
Anglican Church bishops launch blistering attack on President Ruto for condoning police brutality
Addressing journalists at the ACK New Cathedral Church in Kisumu, Maseno South Diocese Bishop Charles Onginjo, flanked by other ACK bishops from the six counties in the region, demanded that President Ruto act decisively on police brutality to restore public confidence in the security sector.
Trigger-happy Kenyan policemen in court over shooting and seriously injuring a civilian during protests
Blogger Albert Ojwang was arrested on June 6 in western Kenya for what police called publishing “false information” about a top police official on social media. Police attributed his death to him “hitting his head against the cell wall,” but activists have questioned the cause of death.
Hawker presumed dead after he was shot by police is alive and in hospital, activists demand accountability
The 22-year-old Kariuki, a hawker like his father, was holding a packet of face masks and is believed to have been caught up in a confrontation with two officers in Nairobi as hundreds of protesters clashed with police. One officer, who had concealed his face with a mask, shot him in the head as he walked away.
Fresh round of dissent breaks out in Kenya as public protests protection of senior police officer implicated in murder
A government pathologist has refuted the police’s account that the blogger’s injuries were self-inflicted, saying the deceased had “head injury, neck compression and other injuries spread all over the body that are pointing towards assault.”
Under pressure Kenya President Ruto finally concedes blogger died ‘at the hands of police’
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority, the police watchdog, has launched an investigation and on Wednesday named five police officers who arrested Ojwang in Homa Bay County and escorted him to Nairobi’s central police station.
