Kenya: Health concern / prisoners of conscience

Koigi wa Wamwere, aged 47, human rights activist, former political prisoner, former member of parliament, journalist, Charles Kuria Wamwere, former political prisoner, G.G. Njuguna Ngengi, councillor for Molo, farmer: Amnesty International is concerned about the health of prisoner of conscience Koigi wa Wamwere, who was sentenced with the two other men above to four years’ imprisonment and six strokes of the cane in October 1995. He was taken to hospital on 4 November 1996 because of a heart abnormality which requires medical treatment which is not available in Kenya.

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