Kenya

Kenyan activists receive death threats - 1 February 2008

Amnesty International has called for the protection of several Kenyan human rights activists who have received death threats in the last two weeks.

NEWS FLASH - Kenya: Prominent human rights defenders threatened with death as “traitors” to their ethnicity - 30 January 2008

Amnesty International today issued an urgent action calling for the protection of several Kenyan human rights defenders and activists who have received serious death t

Killings continue in Kenya - 28 January 2008

Reports from Kenya indicate that up to 70 people have been killed in ethnic killings since Thursday.

Kenya: Government must protect people from politically-motivated and ethnic attacks - 25 January 2008

Amnesty International today called on the Kenyan government to take all appropriate steps to protect people from human rights abuses caused by politically-motivated an

Kenyan police fire at protesters - 18 January 2008

Amnesty International has condemned the reckless and excessive use of lethal force by the Kenyan police, as reports emerged of the killings of at least 12 people dur

Kenya: Amnesty International condemns excessive use of force by police - 18 January 2008

Amnesty International today condemned the reckless and excessive use of lethal force by the Kenyan police, as reports emerged of the killings of at least twelve people

Kenyan election sparks political killings - 4 January 2008

Kenya's disputed election result has triggered a series of politically-motivated killings of civilians by groups of armed youths across the country.

Kenya: Amnesty International condemns killings in post-election violence - 3 January 2008

Amnesty International today strongly condemned the increasing number of politically-motivated killings of civilians by groups of armed youths in different parts of Ken

Kenya: Amnesty International concerned at police killings in election protests - 31 December 2007

(Nairobi) Amnesty International is concerned about reports that dozens of people have been killed in Kenya, many by police bullets, during protests against alleged fra

Rendition in the Horn of Africa - 15 June 2007

At least 140 men, women and children fleeing conflict in Somalia were arrested by Kenyan authorities between 30 December 2006 and February 2007 as they tried to enter