Nairobi, 25th June 2024. The Police Reforms Working Group Kenya (PRWG-K) unequivocally condemns the recent wave of abductions of citizens suspected of involvement in the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests. These 12 abductions, which occurred over the last five days and intensified last night, are a gross violation of human rights and amount to arbitrary arrests and enforced…
Happy Madaraka Day, all. First celebrated on 1 June 1963, the date Kenyans took back internal self-rule from British colonialism, the day finds its most significance in 2024 by asking how truly free we are all. Released in March, the 2023/2024 United Nations Human Development Report informs us that inequalities are expanding again for the…
By Irũngũ Houghton Most of us take our freedom to read what we like for granted. Dr Henry Miyinzi Chakava recently passed away after a life devoted to undermining state censorship and promoting the right to free expression. What was it like for him and others who resisted being silenced and who we owe for…
Professor Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo’s passing away on 30 June 2023 could not have been more different than her discreet departure from Kenya in 1982. A month-long of remembrance activities remind us that our courage to stand up for a just nation is probably all that really matters. Aptly born on what would become Jamhuri day,…
25th April 2018 Amnesty International expresses our deepest condolences and admiration to the family of the late Kenneth Njindo Matiba. “Amnesty considers him to be a courageous man who will be forever known as one of the Kenyans who wrestled us from the tyranny of one man, one party rule and gross human rights violations.…