Kenya: ‘Heinous killing’ of Kenyan lawyer Willie Kimani must be investigated say human rights groups

July 4, 2016

Human rights lawyer Willie Kimani

More than 30 Kenyan and international human-rights organisations are urging Kenyan authorities to investigate the “shocking abduction, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings” of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver.

Later on 4 July, human rights activists will hold demonstrations in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya to protest what Human Rights Watch (HRW) called “heinous killings.”

The bodies of lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josphat Mwenda, and their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri, were recovered from Ol-Donyo Sabuk River in Machakos County, 73km north-east of Nairobi, on 30 June, a week after the three went missing. Several organisations have suggested they were victims of enforced disappearance.

Before the bodies were discovered, 34 Kenyan and international human rights organisations claimed the three men were allegedly abducted by the Administration Police (AP) as they left a court in Machakos County, outside of the capital Nairobi, last week.

A lawyer working with the International Justice Mission (IJM) said Kimani had been representing Mwenda in a case stemming from 10 April 2015 – in an incident where an officer from Syokimau AP Camp shot him during a traffic stop.

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