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Kenyan Police Accused of Killings, Excessive Force While Enforcing COVID-19
Curfew

Rael Ombuor

   NAIROBI - Rights groups in Kenya say police are using excessive force
   while enforcing a nighttime curfew to contain the coronavirus. The
   groups say the excessive force has left at least a dozen people dead
   and hundreds more with life-threatening injuries.

   Eighteen-year-old Ibrahim Onyango was coming home from Dandora dump
   site in Nairobi, where he worked collecting plastics for recycling. It
   was the first night that Kenya implemented a dusk-to-dawn curfew to
   contain the coronavirus.

   His brother, Francis Otieno, saidIbrahim must have missed the
   announcement of the curfew, because he worked all day at the dump,
   without radio or television.

   "He was going home, it was the first day of the curfew, Saturday
   [March] 29th. Together with his friend they met cops. It was around
   7.30 p.m. and they asked him where he had come from and then started to
   beat him. In between the beatings, he got a chance to escape. That's
   how he got to his house. When he got in, my sister Rita says he was
   bleeding, one of his ears was hanging; he had deep wounds on his head."

   Ibrahim died two days later, despite treatment at a Nairobi hospital.

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