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Judges hands tied as hate speech cases flop in court

Suna East MP Junet Mohamed.

When the “Pangani Eight” politicians walked to liberty last week, they affirmed the predictable fate of hate-speech cases.

Busia Woman Representative Florence Mutua, Kilifi Woman Representative Aisha Jumwa, former Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire and Suna East MP Junet Mohamed were set free on grounds that the English and Kiswahili translations provided as part of the evidence were incorrect.

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