Jan 18, 2022 | Civic Space Monitor
In mid-January 2022, striking inmates at the Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi County were badly beaten by officers after they held a protest over lack of food and restriction of movement in the facility. The protests erupted after the prison began rationing food to...
Jan 3, 2022 | Civic Space Monitor
On 3rd January 2022, Elizabeth Ibrahim, an environmental and land rights defender, was killed. Reports indicate that her neighbour allegedly murdered her over a land dispute. The suspect reportedly stabbed Elizabeth several times at a burial when she was lured aside....
Nov 25, 2021 | Civic Space Monitor
On 25th November 2021, unknown assailants attacked a Standard Group journalist, Samson Wire. Wire covered a story about a land ownership dispute in Parklands, Nairobi. A private developer is allegedly responsible for hiring the unknown assailants, and according to...
Aug 25, 2021 | Civic Space Monitor
On 25th August 2021, a man was allegedly shot dead by the police who were dispersing a protest in Kahawa west, Kiambu County where protestors demonstrated against the demolition of trader’s stalls by the Nairobi Metropolitan Service without a prior eviction notice....
Aug 19, 2021 | Civic Space Monitor
In yet another incident of police brutality in the enforcement of a COVID-19-related curfew, on 19th August 2021, residents of Kayole in Nairobi protested the death of John Kiiru who was allegedly beaten to death by police officers for violating the COVID-19 curfew....
Aug 5, 2021 | Civic Space Monitor
On 5th August 2021, police officers fired live bullets to disperse a protest in Embu, killing one person. The protest had broken out following the death of two brothers in police custody after they were arrested for allegedly breaking the 10 pm curfew imposed to curb...
