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Pain, nostalgia as mothers of 1992 political prisoners recount ordeal

Veronica Wambui. She braved police torture to fight for the release of her son. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Veronica Wambui keenly scanned through images on an illustration gallery set up at a venue where she was an invited guest. When she finally spotted her son Karimi Nduthu among tens of the black and white images, her heart sank and the face couldn't hide the pain she had carried for over three decades.

The pain of a mother who stayed away from her home in Molo for about a year and braved police torture to fight for the release of her son.

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