Kenya Batters Press Freedoms


	Kenya Batters Press Freedoms

Carl Lavin

1-20-2008 9:20 AM

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Police batter protesters and bystanders and politicians shred press freedoms.

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the melee, doors to tin shacks were smashed in and tear gas was thrown into 
houses. Shots were fired. An hour later, three bodies were pulled out - all 
killed by police bullets.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1979135.0.0.php"> it was repeated again on Friday, when a further six people were killed in 
Kibera.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1979135.0.0.php"><P>As Kenya's democratic credentials have taken a battering, so too has its reputation for press freedom. Journalists on national papers have faced pressure from government politicians to write certain stories and ignore others. A group of journalists was prevented by police from entering Kibera during Thursday and Friday's crackdown.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1979135.0.0.php"><P>International journalists have also been targeted. Two photographers were arrested in Kisumu, accused of "inciting violence", while a Dutch filmmaker and two Germans were arrested on Friday on terrorism charges. The filmmaker, Fleur van Dissel, had been making a documentary about Odinga.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/98D55272-70A2-4949-AF84-78A092EAE3DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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