More than 700 people have died in the hands of the police since 2007, reports by human rights lobbies documenting extrajudicial killings show. A data base maintained by Missing Voices, a website mounted by human rights entities including Kenya Human Rights Commission and International Justice Mission to document case of extrajudicial killings, show 2020 has been the second deadliest after 2007. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International, ICJ and Human Rights Watch roundly condemned the alleged conduct of the police. Police have also broken into homes and shops, extorted money from residents or looted food in locations across the country,” Human Rights Watch said in its April 22 report. “It is shocking that people are losing their lives and livelihoods while supposedly being protected from infection,” Otsieno Namwaya, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch said.

Source: The Star December 27, 2020 11:37 UTC