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Cover-ups in prisons deny inmates justice, rights groups warn

Kalia Kambanella, Dignity Senior Legal Advisor, addresses the Press at EKA Hotel in Nairobi, on August,11, 2025, during a five-day training course on preventive monitoring of prisons. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Human rights organisations have raised concerns over what they describe as a persistent culture of cover-ups in Kenya’s prisons.

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