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State clamping down on basic civic rights, new report reveals

Kamau Ngugi, Executive Director of the Defenders Coalition and other human rights defenders during the launch of the report on the Trends of Civic Space in Kenya:An Assessment in Nairobi on November 26,2025.[Jacinta Mutura/Standard]

A majority of Kenyans believe civic space has worsened in the past two years, with declining confidence in constitutional rights, a new survey shows.

The report indicates that more than 55 per cent of respondents believe the state of civic space was “bad” or “very bad”.

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