Police in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, fired teargas to disperse protesters demonstrating on Monday against alleged wave of unexplained abductions of government critics.
Dozens of Kenyans have been abducted in recent months, according to human rights groups, who blame the extrajudicial arrests on Kenya’s police and intelligence services.
Kenyan authorities have denied the claim, saying the government neither condones nor engages in extrajudicial killings or abductions.
Some groups of young protesters marched in downtown Nairobi while others staged a sit-in and chanted slogans against the government, with some holding placards denouncing illegal detentions.
The alleged abductions followed anti-government protests that started in June this year. The demonstrations initially aimed at overturning proposed tax hikes.
However, it eventually evolved into a movement that cuts across Kenya’s traditional ethnic divisions, becoming the biggest threat to President William Ruto’s government.
