Threats to journalists affront to press freedom

Last week the Standard Group alerted the country and the world at large on continued threats to harm three of its journalists on account of its reportage on matters of public interests in both television and newspaper. The latest victim is said to be a journalist — Robert Wanyonyi based in western Kenya on his reportage in The Standard newspaper on a coffee scandal that so far has seen 11 murders.

In previous weeks other journalists who are said to have been under direct and indirect threat are Mohamed Ali and Denis Osarigo of the popular Jicho Pevu and The Inside Story — undercover investigative series on Kenya Television Network (KTN).