On 5 June 2026, Amnesty International Kenya convened a hybrid Amnesty Kikao under the theme 2 Years Post #OccupyParliament: Are We on the Right Track to Protect the Right to Protest? The discussion brought together human rights defenders, lawyers, civil society actors, students, and members of the public to reflect on the state of the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and protest in Kenya.
NAIROBI, 8 JUNE 2026: Friends of Nairobi National Park, Just Act, United Green Movement Party, The Green Belt Movement, Amnesty International Kenya, and Greenpeace Africa strongly condemns the arrest of nine peaceful protesters, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, and the violent dispersal of a peaceful procession of environmental defenders, students, and human rights activists advocating for the protection of Nairobi National Park.
Thursday’s arrest of Nairobi’s Urban Planning Chief Officer, Patrick Analo Akivaga, his wife, and the seizure of tens of millions hidden in his Syokimau home read like a movie script. While his conduct has long attracted public concern, this moment must not be reduced to the wrongdoing of an individual. We must also focus on the deeper systemic and relational failures that enabled him to thrive at City Hall.
“We are taking action by having them here in Kenya and being subjected to our laws and measures that are there to protect our children,” – ICT CS, Hon. Kabogo
With 16 Utumishi Girls Academy students dead and 74 injured, the nation reels from another horrific tragic incident. As feminists are forced to organize another public memorial this coming Madaraka Day, what would it take to keep all Kenya’s women and children safe?
Nairobi, 28 May 2026: Amnesty International Kenya is pleased to announce that George Morara will take office as our new Executive Director, effective June 2, 2026, following an open competitive process announced in February.
The midnight home arrest of Officer in Charge of Police Station Dishon Angoya during another week of protests, perhaps not wholly surprising, was still unsettling. What does it reveal about how state power is being exercised?
Nairobi, Friday, May 21, 2026: As fuel protests grip the country, Odipo Dev and Amnesty International Kenya have released the Kenya Freedom Index. The Kenya Freedom Index is the first public platform that empirically tracks violations of the constitutional right to peaceful assembly. Analysing 1,002 protests from 2020 to 2025, the Kenya Freedom Index paints a stark picture. Driven by economic hardship, political grievances and environmental concerns, demonstrations have more than doubled in the past two years and have increasingly met with unlawful force.
Join us for the official launch of the Kenya Freedom Index, a data-driven platform tracking the state of the right to peaceful assembly in Kenya.
A Kenyan court just changed the rules for every organization that collects personal information. Think about every organization that has your data right now: your mobile network, bank, health insurer, the security system that scanned your ID at the door, the betting app that knows your transaction history, and the government agency that issued your documents. Every one of them holds information about your location, finances, identity, and behaviour in a database you have never seen and cannot access. Until mid-May 2026, many of these organizations operated under a comfortable assumption: as long they did not intend for something to go wrong, they would not be responsible if it did.
NAIROBI Tuesday, May 19, 2026: The Law Society of Kenya and the Police Reforms Working Group express grave concern over the violence witnessed yesterday in the context of the ongoing stay‑away and economic boycott over rising fuel costs. At least four deaths have been reported. We call on all actors, especially the National Police Service and the Executive to maintain maximum restraint, uphold the Constitution, and protect the right to peaceful assembly, association, and expression as a solution is found to the rising fuel prices. We call on the Independent Policing Oversight Authority to investigate the killings and allegations that police officers are being intimidated to prefer unlawful charges.
As the primary accountability season nears, politicians suddenly pick our calls and patterns sharpen. How do last week’s Senate exchange, a youth poll, and this week’s by‑election connect and why do all parties in power need to pay attention?