Afriques en Lutte

Kenya's 'Disappeared' Deserve Justice

Otsieno Namwaya — 2016-09-16T03:13:00Z

A few months ago, I listened to a Kenyan man talk about his brother who has been missing since April 2015. “To see the dead body of your family member is painful, but you at least know he is dead,” he told me. As the world commemorates the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances today, I think of him and many others I interviewed for Human Rights Watch's report on people who “disappeared” after last being seen in the custody of Kenya's security agents.
Others have (…)

- Kenya / Justice

Police Brutality Threatens Rights in Kenya

Otsieno Namwaya — 2016-05-22T15:27:00Z

On Monday, Kenyan television broadcast shocking images of police descending on protesters with water cannons, batons and tear gas, beating and bloodying people. Police left one man, Boniface Manono, on the roadside after kicking and stomping on his motionless body.
For me, these images rekindle memories of the repression in the 1990s when the Kanu administration tried to suppress civil society leaders and the political opposition's campaign for reforms to enshrine basic rights in Kenya's (…)

- Kenya / Droit humain