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State won’t compensate political prisoners’ mothers who stripped naked

Three women who stripped naked protesting against their sons being held as political prisoners will not be compensated by the government for injuries they suffered at the time.

The women had joined others in a hunger strike at Uhuru Park and All Saints Cathedral in the early 1990s when armed police officers used force to remove them.

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