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Rights lobby links secret units within DCI, NIS to abductions

African Division Human Rights Executive Director Mausi Segun when she released Human Rights Watch World Report 2025 in Nairobi, on January 16, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

A human rights organisation has claimed that special units are responsible for the widespread abductions occurring in Kenya.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organisation, says it has uncovered a secretive unit within the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) which may be behind the alarming rise in disappearances across the country.

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