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Kenya: Security services must respect fundamental rights during nationwide protests

Amnesty International Kenya calls on the National Police Service (NPS) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold their constitutional...

Kenya: Meta sued for 1.6 billion USD for fueling Ethiopia ethnic violence

Meta must reform its business practices to ensure Facebook’s algorithms do not amplify hatred and fuel ethnic conflict, Amnesty International...

Kenya: Arrest of Amnesty International Kenya’s Chairperson, Renee Ngamau, is an attack on human rights defenders

Spokespersons available to take media interviews Following last night’s arrest of Amnesty International Kenya’s Chairperson and advocate, Renee Ngamau, and...

Kenya: Amnesty International Kenya welcomes High Court judgement on privacy-invasive national ID system

Amnesty International Kenya welcomes the decision by the three-judge bench to uphold the right to privacy of citizens and to...

Amnesty statement on the attack of Dusit D2 Hotel and office complex, Nairobi

Amnesty International Kenya joins other Kenyans and persons of good will around the world in expressing shock and outrage at...

Kenya: Real-time reporting to lift the lid on police killings, abductions

Kenyans will be able to share information about police extra-judicial killings and abductions in real time, using a new online...

GOVERNMENT OF KENYA MUST STOP THE ONGOING FORCED EVICTIONS THAT WILL RENDER 30,000 KIBRA RESIDENTS HOMELESS

Amnesty International expresses deep concern at community reports this morning that the Kenya Urban Roads Authority is demolishing homes and...

Kenya: Nairobi authorities must provide alternative housing to forcibly evicted residents

Over 60 heavily armed police officers ambushed residents of the City Carton informal settlement near Wilson Airport this morning, and...

Kenya: Allow Miguna Miguna in to attend his judicial proceedings

Reacting to the Kenyan authorities’ refusal to let pro-opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna into the country to participate in a judicial...

Somalia: Refugees pressured to leave Dadaab return to insecurity, drought and hunger

Thousands of Somali refugees who were pressured into leaving the Dadaab camp in Kenya are now facing drought, starvation and...

Kenya: Landmark death penalty judgement must lead to full abolition of cruel punishment

Commenting after the Kenyan Supreme Court declared mandatory death sentencing unconstitutional, Oluwatosin Popoola, Amnesty International’s Adviser on the Death Penalty,...

Kenya: Authorities must stem communal violence and stop killings by police

The Kenyan government must take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions between communities, protect people and ensure their safety as opposition...

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