Kenya Police Under Fire Over ‘Excessive Force’
March 28, 2020
2:59 pm
Human rights groups have condemned the “unnecessary and excessive use of force” by Kenyan police as the country imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid efforts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
On Friday, police fired tear gas at a crowd of ferry commuters in the port city of Mombasa before the 7pm to 5am curfew came into force, 20 human rights groups, including Amnesty International, said in a statement on Saturday.
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This forced hundreds of people to touch their faces as they vomited, spat and wiped away tears,
