Amnesty and other rights group have called on US, British and Swedish partners who have been supporting security forces in Kenya to push for reforms and investigations into human rights abuses by police.
This comes as hundreds of lawyers and activists recently marched through Kenya’s capital, Nairobi to protest against the extrajudicial killing by police of human rights lawyer, Willie Kimani, his client, Josephat Mwendwa and their driver, Joseph Muiruri.
Willie Kimani, a high court lawyer in Kenya, was representing Joseph Mwendwa, a motorcycle taxi driver who had filed a complaint that he had been shot and injured by the police in April.
Following the complaint,Mwendwa was subject to campaign of police harassment.
The two men went missing with a taxi driver who picked them up after a June 23 court hearing in Machakos County.
Local newspapers reported that the deceased were last seen entering a police camp before their mutilated bodies were found in the Ol-Donyo Sabuk River, northeast of the capital.
The case is the latest of extrajudicial killings blamed on police officers in the country which has prompted exceptional outrage.
Demonstrators carried mock coffins and wore T-shirts smeared in red paint and emblazoned with slogan “stop police executions”.
“This is not the first time. We have been counting numbers we are making statistics out of human life. I am here to bring an end to this,“said, Boaz Waruku, an activist.
A researcher, Abdullahi Boru said Human rights organisation, Amnesty international has raised the alarm over extrajudicial killings.
“Nobody is safe. People who delude themselves and sit out of this thinking that it’s not them, nobody is safe,” he added.
Local media said postmortem results show the three were bludgeoned and strangled to death with their bodies showing signs of torture.
Monday’s protests were held countrywide following days of lawyers boycotting courts. Kenya’s Law Society of members said more demonstrations are planned for Wednesday.
Reuters, Agency
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