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Human rights defender Kenyan. Similarly, Boniface Mwangi, famous in his country, was arrested at his home near Nairobi, his wife and an NGO announced on Saturday.
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“The police came to us (…) and took my husband, speaking of terrorism and criminal fire! For example, They confiscated his aircraft. Consequently, announced that they were taking him to the HQ of the DCI “, the direction of the criminal investigations, deplored Njeri Mwangi on X.
The director of the NGO for the Defense of Human Rights Vocal arrest famous human rights defender Africa. Hussein Khalid, confirmed this arrest on the same social network and specified in the evening that the activist is detained in a Nairobi police station.
“Everything suggests that he will be detained here until Monday, when he will be presented in court,” he said.
The announcement of the arrest aroused a rain of convictions on social networks where the hashtag #FreeBonifacemwangi is widely shared.
Activists launched at the start of the evening a call to the media to cover an in progress. raid in the activist’s office in the Kenyan capital.
They also shared a photo of M.Mwangi with the message: “I was removed at my home in Lukenya (about forty kilometers from Nairobi). accused of criminal fire and terrorism. I am not a terrorist ”.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) claims that according to a preliminary investigation, the “occupants” of the arrest famous human rights defender M.Mwangi office “distributed money to facilitate the hiring of thugs”. According to the office of searching of the office. shared in the media by an activist, the latter would have “sown terror among the population, causing chaos and disorders to generalized public order” on June 25, 2025.
At least 19 people were killed that day. when demonstrations organized in tribute to the victims of police brutality in 2024 have turned to violence.
Human rights groups denounce police violence and the use of remunerated “thugs” to discredit the movement.
Arrest famous human rights defender
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Activist and ex-photojournalist, Boniface Mwangi, is famous in Kenya where he was arrested many times.
On May 19. he had been arrested with Ugandan journalist and activist Agather Atuhaire in the Tanzanian economic capital Dar es Salaam where he had come to support the head of the Tundu Lissu opposition, who appeared arrest famous human rights defender before the justice for betrayal, a crime liable to the death penalty.
They both accused the police who owned them for several days of acts of torture. sexual assault and this week seized the Court of Justice of East Africa (EACJ) for their alleged kidnapping and torture in Tanzania.
In Kenya. President William Ruto faces increasingly lively criticism following a series of kidnappings and police violence since the start of an unprecedented protest movement in Kenya in June 2024.
According to human rights organizations, more than 100 people have been killed since the start of anti-government gatherings last year.
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