Kenya Media Group Says Journalist Murder Shows Increasing Threat
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The murder of a veteran Kenyan editor is the latest evidence of rising levels of intimidation and harassment of journalists in East Africa’s largest economy, according to a local media group.
John Kituyi, the founder of the western Kenya-based newspaper The Mirror, was attacked late on Thursday after disembarking from a bus near his home in the town of Eldoret, according to an e-mailed statement on Friday from the Kenya Correspondents Association. Kituyi had recently received death threats over a story he worked on.