{"id":197119,"date":"2025-04-30T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:56:10","slug":"kenya-court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court Orders All Police Officers At Protests to Wear Uniforms and Not Conceal Their Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The High Court has ordered that police officers deployed during demonstrations must always be in uniform and should not conceal their faces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The ruling follows a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) where it sued an officer aleged to be behind the the death of Rex Masai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The body was seeking that the court stops the Inspector General of Police from deploying officers in civilian clothes to quell protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">It contended that all instances of murder and police brutality are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504300182.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>Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has ordered that police officers deployed during demonstrations must always be in uniform and should not conceal their faces. The ruling follows a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) where it sued an officer aleged to be behind the the death of Rex Masai. The body was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650827:fda72c76b47dd5016148dde2587c749e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12365,6185,5080,4688,430,257,6749,6186,662,5253,254,10258,13388],"class_list":["post-197119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conceal","tag-court","tag-faces","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-orders","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uniforms","tag-wear"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650827:fda72c76b47dd5016148dde2587c749e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197119","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=197119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}