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The protests take place for almost a year after several were killed and confiscated by the Kenyan police in financial calculation protests.
Demonstrators went to the streets of the capital Nairobi in Kenya to express their anger about the death of a blogger arrested by the police last week when the country’s police guard reported that 20 people had died in custody in the past four months.
The police used tear gas to distribute the crowds near the capital building of the capital to protest against the death of Albert Ojwang, a 31-year-old blogger who was arrested in the western city of Homa Bay last week because he had criticized the deputy chief of police in the country, Eliud Lagat.
The police had initially said Ojwang had died “after he had hit his head against a cell wall”, but the pathologist Bernard Midia, part of a team that carried out an autopsy, said the wounds – including a head injury, neck compression and soft tissue damage – said the attacks as a cause of death.
On Wednesday, President William Ruto admitted that Ojwang had died “by the police” and reversed earlier official reports on his death, and said in a statement that it was “heartbreaking and unacceptable”.
Kenyan media reported on Thursday that a police officer had been arrested for Ojwang’s death.
Al Jazeeras Malecolm Webb reported from the protests in Nairobi and said that Ojwang, who wrote about political and social issues, published alleged role online in a “bribe scandal” online, in which the deputy chief was already involved in a newspaper investigation.
“It is upset by people that he was arrested for this and then days later in a police station,” said Webb, who added that the people that Lagat was held accountable and “are to throw stones on the police, despite a volley of tear gas after being fired on them”.
Financial accounting protests: a year later
The case has highlighted the country’s security services, which has been accused for years due to extrajudicial murders and was forced.
On Thursday, Issak Hassan, chair of the independent police supervisory authority, informed the legislators that 20 deaths were given in police custody in the past four months.
The authorities are now carrying out an official investigation by Ojwang’s death.
On Wednesday, General Inspector Douglas Kanja apologized for the police after he had previously implied that Ojwang died of suicide, and said a hearing from the Senate: “He did not hit the wall.”
Ojwang’s death takes place almost a year after several activists and demonstrators were killed and taken over during the financial amount – many still miss.
The rallies led to demand to remove Ruto, which was criticized for the procedure.
Amnesty International said that Ojwang’s death on Saturday “has to be examined urgently, thoroughly and independently”.