{"id":964402,"date":"2024-07-05T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964402"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T09:01:34","slug":"kenya-rights-groups-decry-abductions-as-government-cracks-down-on-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/kenya-rights-groups-decry-abductions-as-government-cracks-down-on-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya rights groups decry abductions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kenyan activist<\/a> Bill Eugene Omollo was walking home after dark in his Nairobi neighbourhood on June 20 when he spotted trouble – two men eyeing him next to a parked white pick-up without number plates.<\/div>\n
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The 28-year-old had been involved in the youth-led protests that have upended Kenya since last month and had been released by police only hours earlier following his arrest at one of the demonstrations.<\/div>\n
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He shouted for help. “But people were also running. So they took me,” he told Reuters.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Dozens of Kenyans have been targeted in similar abductions in the past two weeks, said human rights groups, who blame the extrajudicial arrests on Kenya’s intelligence services.<\/div>\n
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Organised online and leaderless, the protest – initially a call to repeal tax hikes – has developed into a movement that has cut across Kenya’s traditional ethnic divisions, becoming the biggest threat to William Ruto’s two-year-old presidency.<\/div>\n
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Kenya | Police open fire on protestors:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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