Kenya's High Court prohibits excessive force and unlawful practices by police during Finance Bill protests.
Kenya's High Court has barred the National Police Service from using excessive force, including water cannons, tear gas, live ammunition, and rubber bullets, during protests against the Finance Bill. The ruling came after lawyer Saitabao Ole Kanchory filed a petition alleging arbitrary arrests, illegal abductions, intimidation, and harassment of protesters. The court has also ordered the police to refrain from committing extrajudicial killings, arrests, abductions, detentions, harassment, intimidation, torture, and any cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of protesters.
June 28, 2024
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