‘Go home,’ court tells Eritrean girls evading State prosecutionA section of Eriterian girls in the dock at a Milimani court . The girls' lawyer had told the court that they were running away from persecution by their state of origin. Moses Angaya, the girls’ lawyer told the court that they had come to Kenya as refugees and as such they had not broken any law. “Your honour Eriteria is a hostile nation, these young girls are forced to join compulsory military training where all forms of human rights abuses are perpetrated against them,” he said. Angaya told that court that the girls fear they will be oppressed and persecuted by their State of origin since the regime is mindless of human rights.

Source: Standard Digital May 26, 2019 06:45 UTC