Kenya: Police Abuse Nairobi’s Refugees-HRW

[Che -Guevara]

Torture, Rape, Extortion, and Arbitrary Detention Near the Heart of Kenya’s Capital

 

MAY 29, 2013

 

(Nairobi) Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Kenyan authorities should immediately open an independent public investigation, and the United Nations refugee agency – which has not spoken publicly about the abuses – should document and publicly report on any future abuses against refugees, Human Rights Watch said.

 

The 68-page report, “‘You are All Terrorists:’ Kenyan Police Abuse of Refugees in Nairobi,”is based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report documents how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi’s mainly Somali suburb of Eastleigh and a government order to relocate urban refugees to refugee camps as an excuse to rape, beat, extort money from, and arbitrarily detain, at least 1,000 people. The police described their victims as “terrorists,” and demanded payments to free them. Human Rights Watch also documented 50 cases in which the abuses would amount to torture.

 

“Refugees told us how hundreds of Kenyan police unleashed 10 weeks of hell on communities close to the heart of Nairobi, torturing, abusing, and stealing from some of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable people,” said Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher for Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “Randomly attacking men, women, and children in their homes and in the streets is hardly an effective way to protect Kenya’s national security.”

 

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[warsamaale]

I take anything form HRW with a pinch of salt, that said extortion is rife in kenya.

[Che -Guevara]

You believe Somali refugees are not victimized by the Kenyan Police?

[Che -Guevara]

lol no sh!t nagadaa dee.

[Haatu]

Apophis;956614 wrote:

No more than they're in other places, even ye olde London.

Do you like to be difficult for fun? Even Somalis from NEP suffer at the hands of these fools.

[warsamaale]

They victimized me che, but good thing about kenya is laaluush, toa kitu kidogo and things are sorted. but this wild report you posted is a money making scheme utilized by those feckless NGO's, you'd think the world is upside if you read it without knowledge of what's on the ground,their outlandish allegations are laughable runti.

[QansaxMeygaag]

Same sh*t; different cast.