Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Accused of Extrajudicial Killings
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Human Rights Watch said Kenya’s counter-terrorism unit probably carried out extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances and called on the government to explain the deaths of three Muslim clerics.
There’s “strong evidence” the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, or ATPU, is responsible for abuses, the New York-based group said today in a statement. Human Rights Watch documented 10 killings and the same number of disappearances from November to June and 11 cases of mistreatment or harassment of “terrorism” suspects since 2011. Two calls to the mobile phone of Kenyan police spokeswoman Zipporah Mboroki seeking comment didn’t connect.