![]() ![]() Philip Alston, last week released a report that indicted Kenya's security forces for their involvement in extra-judicial killings. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial Executions, Prof. The widely condemned killings provoked protests in which the Kenyan police yet again shot dead a University of Nairobi student. "It is not a coincidence that the killings happened hours after the government spokesman Alfred Mutua, publicly denounced the Oscar Foundation for its alleged links to the illegal sect and promised unspecified action against them," said Florence Simbiri-Jaoko, the National Commission chair, in a press statement. The two, Oscar Kingara Kamau, the founder of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic, and John Paul Oulu were gunned down a week after meeting with an independent UN expert investigating police killings in Kenya. NAIROBI-The government's watchdog, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and civil society groups in Kenya are demanding for an independent inquiry into the assassination of two human rights defenders in Nairobi last week. ![]()
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