Muthoni Wanyeki, executive director of the Kenya Himan Rights Commission (KHRC) feels that kenyans have a right to protest without being harassed by the police.
She says,"Freedoms of assembly. asociation and expression continue to be severly compromised several months into the poilitical settlement. Not a single publicdemonstrationhas occured without interference from the police since the signing of the political agreement."
A protesting against the size of the grand coalition cabinet was broken up as the protesters tried to march from Freedom Corner to parliament.
A demonstration againg rising food prices was also prevented and some arrested and charged in court. Last week, colleagues intending to protest against former fincance minister Amos Kimunya were not only arrested and charged, they were beaten and assaulted while in the custody of police, Wanyeki said.
The police has a capacity to understand that protest, if expressed peacefuly, is entrely legitimate.
Purie 4 Kenya A tale of love between a lioness and a lamb. This tale is recounted over and over again in the evenings around fires in the manyattas of the Samburu people. Kenya post office produced a stamp in memory of this event. January 7, 2002 Samburu National Reserve, a lioness adopted a young oryx baby, lay next to it and licked it. People who heard this found it impossible to believe. Stories were published; tourists and game rangers photographed the strange phenomenon.
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