Instances of abuse on journalists cited by MCK
By Wahinya.Henry, May 3, 2023
March 30, 2023: A plain cloth police officer broke the window of a car carrying a journalists and lobbed tear gas in the car.
March 27 2023: NTV reporter Winnie Chepkemoi was attacked by goons while covering protests in Kapsoit, Kericho County.
December 24, 2022: Three journalists’ assaulted in Kilifi by staff attached to the governor for covering a protest against the County Government.
October 23, 2022: Mohammed Shariff, a prominent Pakistan investigative journalist Pakistani shot and killed in Kajiado county in an incident police described a case of “mistaken identity”,
November 24, 2022: Journalist Mwangi Muiruri of Daily Nation is attacked by plain cloth policemen attached to the office of Kenya’s second lady in Muranga County.
July 27, 2022: The late former Education CS Professor George Magoha makes a personal attack against Standard Group’s Augustine Oduor for breaking a story on the launch of a Strategic Plan of a parastatal based at the Ministry of Education.
July 12, 2022: Journalists Ian Byron of Daily Nation is assaulted in Migori County, days after he had reported police harassment by people following a story he had written touching on local politicians.
This was in connection to Suna East Member of Parliament and the Orange Democratic Party (ODM) Minority Leader Junet Mohammed after the legislator complained about a story.