Kenya judge: policemen must answer for killing of human rights lawyer


  • World
  • Monday, 20 Sep 2021

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four police officers and a police informer have a case to answer in the killing of a human rights lawyer, a Kenyan judge ruled on Monday, a rare move in a nation where rights groups have accused the police of hundreds of extrajudicial killings.

Lawyer Willie Kimani, 32, and his client Josephat Mwendwa disappeared in June 2016, shortly after filing a complaint alleging that Mwendwa had been shot and injured by police. Days later, their bodies - along with their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri - were recovered from a river outside Nairobi.

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