Overview
- Boniface Kariuki died Monday at Nairobi’s national referral hospital, one day after doctors declared him brain-dead from a head wound inflicted by police during a June 17 protest.
- Two officers were arrested in connection with Kariuki’s shooting, and six people—including three police officers—face murder charges over the custody death of blogger Albert Ojwang.
- Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen issued a controversial order directing police to use deadly force against protesters who approached police stations.
- Rights groups such as Amnesty International and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights are demanding transparency and an end to illegal detentions and torture by security forces.
- Gen Z activists and digital campaigns have sustained nationwide demonstrations against systemic police brutality since Ojwang’s death in custody.