Overview

• Prosecutors charged six people, including three Nairobi police officers, with murdering blogger Albert Ojwang in custody
• Authorities initially attributed Ojwang’s death to suicide before a government autopsy found evidence of assault inconsistent with self-harm
• Thousands marked the one-year anniversary of anti-tax and anti-police brutality protests in Nairobi and other cities under tight security and barricaded government sites
• Western embassies and rights groups have called for restraint and peaceful demonstrations over fears of clashes and the use of state-backed gangs
• Deputy Inspector-General Eliud Lagat stepped aside pending the inquiry after a charged officer testified that superiors ordered Ojwang to be "roughed up"