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Crackdown nation: Report indicts Ruto regime for rising rights abuses

Kenyans along Kenyatta avenue-Moi avenue protest against the killing of blogger Albert Ojwang' while in police custody, they demand immediate resignation and arrest of DIG Eliud Lagat from office. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

A damning report has indicted President William Ruto's administration for clamping down on human rights through violent abductions, arbitrary arrests and detention.

The government was also faulted for committing extra-judicial killings and engaging in economic reprisals, media repression and even physical attacks on journalists to muzzle dissent.

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