Kenya: Pan-African Rights Groups Condemn Kenya's Worsening Crackdown On Protesters and Civil Liberties

Kenya: Pan-African Rights Groups Condemn Kenya's Worsening Crackdown On Protesters and Civil Liberties

A coalition of Pan-African civil society groups, legal experts, and human rights defenders has issued a scathing statement condemning the Kenyan government's escalating repression of civil liberties, arbitrary arrests, and weaponization of the justice system.

Student leaders seek protest exit plan to lock out hijackers

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 22 — Student leaders from some of Kenya’s top universities have called for an urgent, non-political, and youth-led dialogue to address the country’s deepening social and economic challenges. Speaking at a press conference at the University of Nairobi on Tuesday, the leaders demanded youth inclusion in any planned national dialogue and rejected what they described as the political hijacking of recent protests. Representing the…

LSK condemns state overreach amid protest crackdown

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has condemned the government’s handling of recent protests, decrying what it terms as a

KUMBI TRACE: We’re documenting the arrest of protesters since June 2025. Here’s what we know so far. - Africa Uncensored

By Nyamisa Chelagat for Kumbi Trace, and Neema Mutemi The ongoing mass detention of Kenyan youth in maximum security facilities represents not an aberration, but the logical continuation of a colonial system designed to crush African resistance that has never been truly dismantled, only modernized. In a country where systematic oppression has normalized state violence against young people, making each new generation believe that brutal treatment…