{"id":188535,"date":"2025-01-13T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-abductions-the-powerful-legal-shields-citizens-and-courts-can-use-expert\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:51:28","slug":"kenya-abductions-the-powerful-legal-shields-citizens-and-courts-can-use-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-abductions-the-powerful-legal-shields-citizens-and-courts-can-use-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Abductions &#8211; the Powerful Legal Shields Citizens and Courts Can Use &#8211; Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Kenya&#8217;s national human rights commission recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knchr.org\/Articles\/ArtMID\/2432\/ArticleID\/1213\/Statement-on-the-Recent-Surge-of-AbductionsEnforced-Disappearances-in-Kenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">82 abductions or enforced disappearances<\/a> between June and December 2024. Many of the people reported missing after the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kenya-finance-bill-taxes-protests-396382bdac0fc18dfec7cd3003ece35b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-tax protests<\/a> later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ced8q1yxggqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resurfaced<\/a>, but some have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bp25xq8Q5DY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found dead<\/a>. Dozens of young Kenyans <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/09\/africa\/kenya-government-critics-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> being snatched from their homes or the streets by armed men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The origins of enforced disappearances and the institutions that facilitate them in Kenya can be traced to <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/358\/edited_volume\/chapter\/2375460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British settler colonialism<\/a>. Kidnapping and detaining&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501130437.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s national human rights commission recorded 82 abductions or enforced disappearances between June and December 2024. Many of the people reported missing after the country&#8217;s anti-tax protests later resurfaced, but some have been found dead. Dozens of young Kenyans reported being snatched from their homes or the streets by armed men. The origins of enforced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[24929,258,256,7604,8732,8957,4688,430,6393,257,21836,27339,254],"class_list":["post-188535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abductions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-courts","tag-expert","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-powerful","tag-shields","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}