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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
KENYA
Petty Offences Newsletter: Digest of Campaign activities in September 2020
In September 2020, the Regional Campaign to Decriminalise Petty Offences hosted a virtual conference entitled Policing...
Read morePetty Offences Newsletter: Increased Criminalisation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Regional Campaign partners remain deeply concerned about the criminalisation of poverty across our continent. It...
Read moreSex Workers in Africa Are More Vulnerable During COVID-19
The Global Fund Sex workers in Africa are among the communities suffering the most due...
Read moreWhy Criminal Justice Reforms are on Course
The Daily Nation By Grace Ngenye When I read the Daily Nation article (June 17,...
Read moreKENYA:Drunk and disorderly: Poor Man’s Offence a Cash Cow for Police
By ERIC WAINAINA Weeks ago as Mr Kamau Mburu and other people were walking home...
Read moreKENYA: Petty Offences are Biased against the Poor
By Sarah Nyakio Seven out of 10 inmates in the country are petty offenders with...
Read moreKENYA: Prison tales shed light on grim life of inmates
Omar Ismael ,64 Enter a prison and brace yourself for the...
Read moreKENYA: Number of Petty Offenders in Prisons Alarming
Mombasa senator Mohammed Faki has decried the increasing number of petty offenders congesting Kenyan prisons....
Read moreKENYA: There are alternatives to criminal prosecution for the justice system
Recently, key criminal justice players in Kenya, led by the Office of the...
Read moreCops Ordered to Pay Sh7.8m to Victims of Arbitrary Arrest
The High Court has ordered six police officers to pay Sh4 million to a lawyer...
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