Outrage in Kenya as autopsy reveals a blogger was strangled in police custody
According to the police, he injured himself by banging his head against the wall in his cell. However, an autopsy conducted on Tuesday indicated that Ojwang was strangled in police custody.
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00:00Protests erupted in Nairobi on Monday and Tuesday over the death of a Kenyan blogger, Albert Ojuang,
00:07who was found dead after being in custody at the location on Sunday.
00:11According to the police, he injured himself by banging his head against a wall in his cell,
00:17though an autopsy conducted on Tuesday indicated that Ojuang was strangled in police custody.
00:23The police are claiming that Ojuang killed himself in custody, safe custody of police.
00:33But what the members of the family are saying is that they have seen the body, the lawyer has also said they have seen the body,
00:41and there are more than one injuries on his face, on his hands and on the body.
00:46So how could he have hurt himself like that?
00:48The death continued to spark outrage online and has renewed calls for protests to demand accountability from the government.
00:55This government is actually urging us to come out in the streets again.
01:00They are saying that they have not repented. They are saying that they will continue killing young people.
01:05They are saying that they will continue abducting and assassinating us.
01:08So what you are saying is that it is better to shout and die when shouting than to keep quiet and be gotten from our homes when we are quiet.
01:17This incident comes almost one year after several activists and protesters were killed and abducted by Kenya police during the finance bill protests in 2024.
01:28Economic frustration remains high despite the proposed taxes being scrapped last year.
