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Spotlight: Kenya Impunity Attacks

Kenya: Journalists assaulted, detained while covering post-election violence

23 August 2017
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

In the week following Kenya's national election, CPJ spoke with 10 journalists who said they were assaulted or harassed in the course of their reporting.

Harassment reaches new heights during Kenya elections

Tensions were high in Kenya following a polarizing campaign between the two leading presidential candidates.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists‎ 8 August 2017

Kenya Attacks

Royal Media group journalist Emmanuel Namisi threatened, assaulted in Kenya

Emmanual Namisi said the men who attacked and threatened him were angry at a story he had written alleging they played a role in the death of a woman at a political rally three nights prior.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists‎13 June 2017

Kenya Attacks Censorship

The ghost of elections past

During Kenya's election campaign, attacks against journalists are so common that perpetrators often discuss them openly.

‎ Human Rights Watch‎ 2 June 2017

Latest from Kenya

Disappeared: South Sudan activist Dong Samuel Luak & opposition official Aggrey Idris

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya South Sudan Censorship Free Expression & the Law 27 April 2017
The Trump effect

‎ PEN American Center

Kenya United States Attacks Zimbabwe Free Expression & the Law 6 April 2017
Reporter beaten by police while investigating police violence in Kenya

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Kenya Attacks Censorship 23 March 2017
Turning the tide for LGBTQI+ rights in Kenya

‎ Caro Rolando for IFEX

Kenya Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 7 March 2017
Eric Gitari: Winning on perilous ground

‎ IFEX

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 22 February 2017
Kenya declares criminal defamation unconstitutional

‎ ARTICLE 19

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 16 February 2017
British correspondent expelled from Kenya without explanation

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Kenya Censorship Free Expression & the Law 8 February 2017
Prominent lawyer and human rights advocate faces forced return to South Sudan

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya South Sudan Free Expression & the Law 26 January 2017
Kenyan politician "jokes" about rape of political rival on live TV

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Attacks 23 November 2016
Kenya: Politicians must be held to account for intimidation and harassment of journalists

‎ ARTICLE 19

Kenya Attacks 24 August 2016
Brutal Kenyan extrajudicial killing must be investigated

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Impunity Attacks 4 July 2016
Kenya urged to investigate police use of excessive force, killing of protesters

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Attacks Freedom of Assembly 21 June 2016
Kenyan police face investigation for excessive force against protestors

‎ Freedom House

Kenya Attacks Freedom of Assembly 19 May 2016
Kenya's tradition of satire undermined by firing of celebrated cartoonist

‎ PEN International

Kenya Censorship 21 March 2016
When civil society is attacked, Kenya's democracy is imperiled

‎ Freedom House

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 11 January 2016
Kenyan government targets NGOs in tense coastal region

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 11 June 2015
Threats facing journalists in northern Kenya

‎ Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

Kenya Access to Information Attacks 6 May 2015
Kenyan editor murdered by unknown assailants in Eldoret town

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Kenya 4 May 2015
Kenya's High Court rules LGBT group can register as NGO

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 29 April 2015
On Earth Day, Phyllis Omido recognised for activism against poisonous smelter in Kenya

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Attacks 22 April 2015
Parts of security law restricting speech, media ruled unconstitutional

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 3 March 2015
New Kenya security law undermines rights

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya 30 December 2014
Kenyan parliament to vote on restrictive security bill

‎ International Press Institute

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 18 December 2014
Kenyan journalist covering police detained, harassed

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Kenya Censorship 6 November 2014
Kenyan authorities arrest Somali political reporter

‎ National Union of Somali Journalists

Kenya Censorship Free Expression & the Law Somalia 6 October 2014
LGBT rights group denied registration in Kenya due to "unacceptable" name

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Free Expression & the Law 2 October 2014

At a glance

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Track, capture, kill: Inside communications surveillance and counterterrorism in Kenya

This investigation focuses on the techniques, tools and culture of Kenyan police and intelligence agencies’ communications surveillance practices.

Privacy International 15 March 2017
Freedom of the Press 2016: Kenya

At least 19 cases of threats or violence against journalists were reported in the first half of 2015; among them was the murder of John Kituyi, the founder of the Mirror Weekly newspaper, who was beaten to death by unknown attackers in April.

Freedom House 23 April 2016
Freedom on the Net 2015: Kenya

Businesses increasingly using blogs as platform for advertising, blogging becoming economically viable industry

Freedom House 31 October 2015

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