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Kenya police still not prosecuted for killings

GENEVA (Reuters) - Police officers responsible for the death of more than 1,000 people following Kenya's December 2007 elections "remain immune from prosecution 18 months later", a United Nations human rights envoy said on Wednesday.

Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said police shootings also remain unrecorded and unaccounted for, and human rights defenders are being "systematically harassed and intimidated".

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