Within the first 10 days of the dawn-to-dusk curfew responding to COVID in Kenya, at least 6 people died from police violence. New from @hrw https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/22/kenya-police-brutality-during-curfew

"We ran when the police arrived, but they threw teargas at us. One teargas canister hit Mukolwe and exploded in his face. He started suffocating as police laughed at him, and when we went to his aid, police again threw teargas at us..." @NPSOfficial_KE

"A witness in Rachuonyo, Homa Bay County, western Kenya, said that Omondi, a motorcycle taxi driver, died on March 29 at Rachuonyo Level Four Hospital in Oyugis from injuries following police beatings on March 27, the first day of the curfew."

Juma, a 49-year-old former police officer who is a motorcycle taxi rider, volunteered to take a woman in labor to Mwahima hospital, Kwale county. On his way back home, relatives said, a group of police officers, stopped him, beating him with rifles and gun butts.

Police shot 13-year-old Yassin Moyo, as he was standing on the third-floor balcony of a family apartment at night, in the stomach, killing him instantly. #justiceforyassin

Witnesses say that more than 20 police officers beat Eric Ng’ethe, 23, an accountant at a pub in Ukunda, Kwale county, to death, at around 7 p.m. on April 1.

Two victims of police beatings said that, on March 28, 7 police officers forced their way into a block of six units, in Nairobi’s Kayole neighborhood, Matopeni area, dragged the owner of the building, a middle-aged disabled man, from his shop, and started beating him and his wife