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Return to original police brutality scene a century later

Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, Human Rights defenders at Central police station on July 8, 2023 before addressing media over the arrest and continued detention of Saba Saba Protesters. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

What a way to mark the centennial birthday of a country.

There could have been a hundred and three ways to mark the month Kenya was officially shackled and Kenyans deprived of dignity representation. Teargassing an 87-year-old lawyer, Dr John Khaminwa and former Chief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga (77) (pictured, second left) inside a police station was quite a spectacle!

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