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Boniface Mwangi faces two months in prison or pay Sh300,000 fine

Activist Boniface Mwangi during an interview with KTN. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has been fined Sh300,000 after the High Court found him guilty of contempt of court in a defamation case that was filed by Tourism Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua.

Mwangi was sentenced to two months in prison by Justice Francis Rayola of the Machakos High Court, with an option of paying a fine of Sh300,000 to secure his freedom.

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