{"id":421631,"date":"2010-03-12T12:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"15795 at http:\/\/www.amnesty.org"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:20:05","slug":"kenyan-investigation-into-alleged-police-killings-must-be-impartial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421631","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan investigation into alleged police killings must be impartial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-date field-field-date\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n                    <span class=\"date-display-single\">Friday 12 March 2010<\/span>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-strapline\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n<p>Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the  alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial,  independent and for the results to be made public.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, eyewitnesses reported that seven men were shot dead by a group of administration police during a police operation in Kawangare, an informal settlement in Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi. Police officers claimed the men were part of a criminal gang, but witnesses say they were taxi drivers. <\/p>\n<p>In a press conference yesterday, police spokesman Eric Kiraithe promised investigations into the shootings adding that any police officer found to have breached the law would be punished. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promise of a police investigation is a step in the right direction,\u201d said Godfrey Odongo, Amnesty International\u2019s East Africa researcher. \u201cBut unlike many previous investigations, this one must be impartial and independent and its findings must be made public and acted upon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In March 2009, two human rights activists were shot dead in their car while stopped in traffic in central Nairobi. The two had been campaigning against illegal killings by the police. An investigation into the murders has failed to bring anyone to trial. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a taskforce set up to investigate alleged rapes by police during the post-election violence in late 2007 has failed to yield any results. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Under international law, Kenya is obliged to respect and protect the right to life of all its citizens. This includes taking effective measures to protect people against acts of violence and to bring perpetrators to justice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice should be the enforcers of law and must not be allowed to rise above it,\u201d said Godfrey Odongo. \u201cAnyone identified by the inquiry as having been responsible for extra-judicial killings should be brought to justice in a trial and the families of those killed should be compensated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 12 March 2010 Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public. Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}