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Karua warns of rising repression across East Africa

People's Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua raise concerns on the shrinking democratic space in East Africa. [Screen grab]

People's Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua has raised alarm over what she describes as a growing pattern of repression and democratic backsliding across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Speaking on Spice FM on Monday, December 8, Karua said recent events in the region point to a coordinated trend of state-sanctioned brutality, cross-border abductions, shrinking civil liberties and increasing disregard for constitutional norms.

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