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Police said an independent police supervision body in Kenya had launched an investigation into the death of a man who was detained “for a false publication”.
Albert Owang was arrested in the western city of Homa -Bey, and then drove 350 km (220 miles) to the capital, his father Meshak Opio told reporters.
“Being in custody, the suspect suffered a head injury after hitting his head on the cell wall,” said in a police statement. He was sent to the hospital “, where he was found dead on his arrival.”
The director of the Kenyan branch of the Amnesty International Rights Group told the BBC that the death of Mr. Oywang described in the reports as a teacher and blogger was “very suspicious”.
said the amnesty In the statement that his death “raises serious questions that should be urgent, thoroughly and independently.”
Senior police officer Stephen Okal cited by a star newspaper Showing what happened in the cage was a “suicide attempt”.
It is unclear what the accusation was mentioned in the “false publication” but said G -n Opiyo Internet Sight News Site Citizen Digital The fact that a police officer who arrested: “Albert offended the older man on X”, a social media platform.
Speaking to the circumstances of his arrest, the director of the International Kenya in Kenya Irung said that “rather shocking” that Mr. Oywang was not booked in the local police station after his detention, and was instead set aside.
He urged independent investigators to provide what he called the “crime” in the police station in Nairobi.
Police said Mr. Oywang was “legally arrested”.
Its detention and death arise at the time of increasing concern about how some government critics are drawn.
Last week, Rose Man Software Developer – Who created the instrument that will help people oppose the government’s financing bill – was accused of violating the cybercrime law.
