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Mwatha’s death a case of how the poor interact with the law

In the end, the autopsy showed Caroline Mwatha (pictured), the human rights defender from Dandora, died from complications during a botched abortion. Police had already publicly made this claim when they announced the discovery of her body, at the City Mortuary, after Mwatha had been missing for a number of days. Police, frequently inept or indifferent, now come up for rare commendation for the competent manner in which they carried out investigations into the disappearance of Mwatha.

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