Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority has launched investigations into the killings of the two victims who are allegedly suspected of being members of a gang. A video that went viral on the Internet showed an alleged police officer shooting several times at a man who apparently was unarmed and represented no imminent threat to anyone’s life.
Tagged under Violence & Peace African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Kenya extra-judicial killings, Special Rapporteur on Prisons, Conditions of Detention and Policing in Africa, Chairperson of the Working Group on Death Penalty and Extra-Judicial and Summary or Arbitrary killings in Africa, Kenya Independent Policing Oversight Authority