Body of Josphat Mwenda (Lawyer Willie Kimani client) is being loaded into a police car after being found in Oldonyo Sabuk River.
NAIROBI, KENYA: Nairobi Court has granted the Prosecution 14 days to complete investigations against three police officers accused of killing Lawyer Willie Kimani and his two companions.
This is after the prosecutor Catherine Mwaniki requested for more time since the three were only arrested on last Friday which was a weekend.
Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo directed the matter to be mentioned on July 18 for further directions.
The three suspects who are Senior Sergeant Fredrick Leliman, Stephen Chebulet and Silvia Wanjoki appeared before the Magistrate but did not take plea.
The Prosecution said they require more time since the suspects were arrested on Friday heading to weekend and could not complete investigations and also that they are waiting for the post morterm results.
Lawyer Kimani was killed alongside his client Josephat Mwenda and a taxi driver Joseph Muiruri over a suspected tussle with Administration Police officers. Their bodies were pulled out of a river on Thursday.
The killings have drawn widespread condemnation from lawyers, civil society groups and diplomatic missions in Nairobi.
Meanwhile about 300 people marched through the streets of Nairobi on Monday to protest over what they said was the extrajudicial killing by police of human rights lawyer, Willie Kimani, his client and their driver.
Demonstrators carried a mock coffin emblazoned with the words "Stop extrajudicial killings." Others wore T-shirts with the slogan "Stop police executions." Some carried placards demanding Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery resign.
Rights groups in Kenya, where members of the public often complain about police corruption, have accused sections of the police service of involvement in extrajudicial killings, including in the case of Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri, whose bodies were found last week.
Police officials say they investigate and prosecute any officers suspected of breaking the law.
After lodging a complaint alleging he had been shot and injured by police, Mwendwa was charged with a range of offences, including possessing drugs and resisting arrest, activists said.
The authorities said on Saturday that three police officers had been arrested in connection with the deaths of the three men, who disappeared after a court hearing on June 23.
"The shocking abduction, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of lawyer Willie Kimani, as well as his client and their taxi driver ... should be cause for alarm over the state of human rights and rule of law in Kenya," rights group Amnesty International wrote in a statement on Monday.
Kimani and Muiruri also worked for U.S.-based International Justice Mission.
Additional reporting by Reuters
