Kenyan police has brutalized demonstrators over calls for electoral reforms ahead of the general elections next year.
Violence protests saw police firing tear gas to break up demonstrations while brutalizing of demonstrators.
Police were caught on camera beating some protesters who had gathered outside the offices of Kenya’s electoral commission in the capital Nairobi.
In the horrifying scenes that ensued, police officers chased them through downtown streets.
Some protesters hid in nearby buildings but riot police flushed them out toward waiting colleagues who then beat them with wooden clubs and kicked them as they tried to flee.
There has however been several such protests in recent weeks in various Kenyan towns including Kisumu and Kisii, where police firing tear gas to break up the crowds, according to local media reports.
Raila Odinga, a former prime minister who lost his latest bid for the presidency in 2013, who has accused the commission of being biased towards President Uhuru Kenyatta had a bullet shot through his windscreen. An occurrence believed to have been an assassination attempt on him.
The opposition CORD coalition, led by Odinga, has accused the IEBC of bias and said its members should quit. IEBC officials have dismissed the charge and say they will stay.
‘For free and fair election, IEBC must go,’ read a banner held aloft by one demonstrator
Violence protests saw police firing tear gas to break up demonstrations while brutalizing of demonstrators.
Police were caught on camera beating some protesters who had gathered outside the offices of Kenya’s electoral commission in the capital Nairobi.
In the horrifying scenes that ensued, police officers chased them through downtown streets.
Some protesters hid in nearby buildings but riot police flushed them out toward waiting colleagues who then beat them with wooden clubs and kicked them as they tried to flee.
There has however been several such protests in recent weeks in various Kenyan towns including Kisumu and Kisii, where police firing tear gas to break up the crowds, according to local media reports.
Raila Odinga, a former prime minister who lost his latest bid for the presidency in 2013, who has accused the commission of being biased towards President Uhuru Kenyatta had a bullet shot through his windscreen. An occurrence believed to have been an assassination attempt on him.
The opposition CORD coalition, led by Odinga, has accused the IEBC of bias and said its members should quit. IEBC officials have dismissed the charge and say they will stay.
‘For free and fair election, IEBC must go,’ read a banner held aloft by one demonstrator
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