Rights groups say compensating police brutality victims without an apology or prosecutions risks shielding perpetrators and undermining justice.
The government’s plan to compensate victims of police brutality without an apology to them as recommended by the taskforce will only intensify and embolden rogue police officers to kill and main more Kenyans because neither the government nor the law enforcers have acknowledged the evils committed and demonstrated remorse, observers say.
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The government has begun implementing a compensation programme for victims of police brutality and protest-related violence.
Human rights defenders have accused the government of shielding police officers behind a Sh2bn compensation plan that pays…
KNCHR is cautioning that compensation against police brutality would not resolve long-standing pattern of right abuse unless it…
Families of people killed or missing in alleged cases of police brutality and enforced disappearances continue to seek justice…
Kenya’s reparations plan is welcomed but raises questions on fairness, funding, and whether justice for state violence victims…
Ruto said the compensation was not the “price of life, of pain or of loss,” and that should not be seen as a “reward for violence…
