Source: US News & World Report
“Protests in the Kenyan capital Nairobi intensified on Thursday, with vehicles set ablaze and police firing teargas to disperse crowds angered by the death in custody of a political blogger last week, Reuters TV footage showed. The death of 31-year-old Albert Ojwang, who blogged on political and social issues, is the latest case to throw a spotlight on the country’s security services, who have been accused of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances for years. Police used teargas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital, with at least two vehicles set on fire, Reuters TV footage showed, a day after President William Ruto said Ojwang had died ‘at the hands of the police,’ reversing earlier official accounts of his death. Police had initially said Ojwang was arrested in western Kenya on Friday for allegedly defaming the country’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat online and died ‘after hitting his head against a cell wall.'” (06/12/25)