Workplace spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani cited Kenyan police studies of a minimum of 11 deaths, 52 injured cops, and 567 arrests. The Kenya Nationwide Fee on Human Rights reported barely totally different figures: a minimum of 10 fatalities, 29 accidents, 37 arrests, and two abductions.
Protests erupted in 16 counties, with police reportedly utilizing dwell ammunition, rubber bullets, tear gasoline and water cannons.
Ms. Shamdasani additionally famous studies of looting and destruction of private and non-private property in a number of areas.
Disaster escalation
This week’s violence follows the deaths of 15 protesters and a whole lot of accidents throughout demonstrations on 25 June in Nairobi and elsewhere.
These protests had been initially triggered by the anniversary of final 12 months’s anti-tax demonstrations, which left a minimum of 60 deaths and dozens allegedly kidnapped by the police.
The protests on Monday marked the thirty fifth anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba protests, which paved the way in which to multi-party democracy in Kenya.
Name for accountability
Ms. Shamdasani mentioned that UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, “repeats his name for all reported killings and different alleged violations and abuses of worldwide human rights regulation, together with with respect to make use of of pressure, to be promptly, completely, independently and transparently investigated.”
She famous that Kenyan police announcement of an investigation into the 25 June incidents and added that the UN human rights workplace stands able to help nationwide authorities of their efforts, together with on the investigations.
She pressured that underneath worldwide regulation, regulation enforcement could solely use deadly pressure when strictly mandatory to guard life from an imminent risk.
Excessive Commissioner Türk additionally renewed his name for calm, restraint, and full respect for the rights to freedom of expression, affiliation, and peaceable meeting.
“It’s important that legit grievances on the root of those protests are addressed,” Ms. Shamdasani mentioned.
