Somalis in Kenya used as scapegoats: rights body

>Kenya’s Somali community is being scapegoated in a counter-terror operation which has seen thousands subjected to arbitrary arrest, harassment, extortion, ill-treatment, forcible relocation and expulsion, Amnesty International said this week.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Daily News

21 Aug

Human rights body trumps civil rights, governance knowledge

Human rights body trumps civil rights, governance knowledge
Daily News
THERE is an urgent need to formulate and lay down principles and guidelines to further strengthen the criminal justice system in the country with regard to arrest, police custody and pre-trial detention to ensure compliance with International standards.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Kenya sends back 'illegal' Somalis

Kenya sends back 82 Somalis to Somalia after launching a massive security force operation to flush out illegal immigrants and militant Islamists.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Aug

Rights body asked to sue CA

Some residents of Monduli in Arusha Region have asked the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) to file a case against the Constituent Assembly (CA) leaders for violating the Constitutional Review Act 11.

 

10 years ago

Graft Drive

28 Apr

Rights body agitates for reform of anti

Rights body agitates for reform of anti-graft drive
Daily News
THE government has been urged to revisit and reform the anti-corruption campaign as well as to impose severe punishment to those offenders as a way to curb corruption in the country. The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) made the call in its report, ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Dec

Rights body pokes holes in civic polls

Irregularities that prevailed in countrywide local government elections have yielded calls for minister in the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for Regional Administration, Local Government, Ms Hawa Ghasia, to be accoutable.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Jan

Rights body probes Kiteto deadly clashes

Lawyers with the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) are investigating abuse of human rights in land clashes pitting farmers and livestock keepers which took place in the district recently.

 

9 years ago

BBC

15 Sep

Rights monitors condemn Kenya 'abuse'

Kenya's official rights body accuses the security forces of carrying out summary killings and disappearances as they crack down on militants.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Dec

Kenya sacrifices human rights for security

The government’s response to allegations of the existence of State-run hit squads in an Al-Jazeera report broadcast this week was predictable.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Jun

Regional body advises Kenya on combating terror groups

The East African Law Society (EALS) warned yesterday that growing insecurity in Kenya could have disastrous repercussions to the business sector in the entire East African region.

 

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