Human rights defenders have accused the government of shielding police officers behind a Sh2bn compensation plan that pays victims without naming their killers.

Compensation for protest victims begins next week, Panel of Experts on Compensation chairperson Prof Makau Mutua says verification of 1,101 victims ongoing.

Kenya’s president says victims of human rights abuses during a series of protests, in which hundreds of people died, were injured, or suffered business losses, will be compensated…