The body of a Kenyan lawyer who was representing a client making a complaint against the police has been found.<\/p>\n
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) said it was a “dark day for the rule of law in Kenya”.<\/p>\n
Kenya’s police have often been accused of brutality and they have been blamed for a series of extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n
The police chief has ordered the arrest of three police officers suspected of being involved in his kidnapping.<\/p>\n
According to the LSK, Mr Kimani went missing along with his taxi driver and client after a court appointment over a week ago.<\/p>\n
One other body has been found but there are conflicting reports as to who this is.<\/p>\n
A police source told the BBC that the two bodies had been found on the bank of a river 70km (43 miles) north-east of Nairobi.<\/p>\n
A search is ongoing at the site to find the third body, Kenya’s Standard newspaper reports.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the inspector general of the national police service George Kinoti said that investigations would be pursued.<\/p>\n
“In the event that a crime is disclosed linking any person, whether police officer or otherwise, the law will doubtless take its own course,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Mr Kimani was working for the International Justice Mission, a US legal charity which focuses on cases of police abuse of power.<\/p>\n
He had been representing his client in a complaint against a police officer who had allegedly shot him during a traffic stop in 2015.<\/p>\n
LSK says this is the first time that a lawyer working on a sensitive case has gone missing.<\/p>\n
However, LSK head Isaac Okero told the BBC’s Mohammud Ali in Nairobi that the incident suggests “lawyers are becoming a target because of their work”.<\/p>\n
In 2011 a Kenyan human rights lawyer accused the Kenyan government of framing him for a bombing to get back at him for defending victims of extraordinary rendition.<\/p>\n
Kenyan security forces carried out 25 extrajudicial killing between 2013 and 2015,Kenya’s official rights body said.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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