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Opinion: Attempts to turn back clock on freedom, rights should be resisted

Activist Maina Kiai Photo:Courtesy

Yet again, another high-ranking Kenyan was made to wait at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he travelled after his travelling papers were questioned by Immigration Department officials.

That Maina Kiai, until recently United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, was detained in this day and era is quite repugnant.

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