Posted on 03 Jan 2009 by APS
Mr Kibaki said the new law would safeguard Kenya's moral values |
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has signed into law a media bill that journalists say will curtail press freedom.
The law gives the Kenyan authorities the power to raid media offices, tap phones and control broadcast content on grounds of national security.
Mr Kibaki said he had carefully considered the journalists' concerns but added press freedom must go hand in hand with responsibility. ..Read more
Posted on 19 Dec 2008 by APS
In this case, the Petitioners had joined all the Presiding Officers in each ward in each of 16 Local Government Areas as Respondents as if all the Presiding Officers in each such ward were one Respondent. The two sets of Appellants objected to such amalgamation, and the Tribunal held that “The lumping together of several presiding officers from unspecified and unidentified polling booths in a number, of wards in the different local governments makes the 23rd- 214th Respondents non juristic persons. ..Read more
Posted on 01 Oct 2008 by APS
Human Rights Watch says at least 10 people are being detained without charges in Ethiopia, following an operation in early 2007 that covertly transferred terrorism suspects between countries in the Horn of Africa region. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the group says the program was conducted with the complicity of the United States.
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