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Youths arrested following killing of 29 people in 2009 deny Mungiki link, appeal sentence

The youth were arrested at the height of killings by vigilantes in Nyeri.

KENYA: Twenty three youths who were arrested on suspicion of being Mungiki members during the infamous Gathaithi massacre want the court to free them. Twenty nine people were hacked to death at Gathaithi.

They told the Nyeri High Court Thursday that they were not members of the illegal sect. They pleaded their innocence when they appeared before Justice John Mativo to appeal the seven-year sentences imposed by the lower court.

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