Human rights activists call for arrest of police officers linked to murder of Mathare man

The alliance also demanded the National Security Committee of the National Assembly table a report outlining the action they are taking to curb the alarming rise in extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of the youth. [Courtesy] 

An alliance of human rights organisations has called for the immediate arrest of police officers involved in the alleged illegal arrest, detention and killing of a youth from Mathare.

Representatives of the alliance dubbed Police Reforms Working Group-Kenya (PRWG-Kenya), noted that the youth, identified only as Collins, was reportedly arrested by police from Mathare area and later killed within 12 hours.