Worldwide fury over State clampdown on local media

Nation Media Group Editor in Chief Tom Mshindi (right) Kenya National Commission for human rights Chairperson George Morara (left) and Eastern Africa Regional Director Henry Maina addressing the media over the alleged surrounding of Nation Media Group by police officers on1/2/17. [Photo by Beverlyne Musili/Standard]

Kenya has dropped in global rankings of press freedoms over the past decade, especially under the Jubilee administration, joining autocratic countries such as Tunisia.

Independent research by World Press Freedom Index covering 180 countries, places Kenya in the bottom half where several other previously unstable countries have lifted themselves out of.