{"id":197457,"date":"2025-05-05T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-4-police-officers-charged-with-murder-of-baby-pendo-39-protestors\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:06:26","slug":"kenya-4-police-officers-charged-with-murder-of-baby-pendo-39-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-4-police-officers-charged-with-murder-of-baby-pendo-39-protestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 4 Police Officers Charged With Murder of Baby Pendo, 39 Protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Four Police officers have been charged with the 2017 murder of baby Pendo and 39 other protestors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This is after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) approved charges against them while dropping charges against the remaining officers after reviewing their files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Among those facing prosecution is John Chengo Masha, who has been charged with serious offenses, including murder and crimes against humanity under the International Crimes Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">He also faces a separate charge of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505050175.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 Four Police officers have been charged with the 2017 murder of baby Pendo and 39 other protestors. This is after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) approved charges against them while dropping charges against the remaining officers after reviewing their files. Among those facing prosecution is John Chengo Masha, who has been charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7331,7081,4688,430,304,257,6749,13348,662,13973,254],"class_list":["post-197457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baby","tag-charged","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-pendo","tag-police","tag-protestors","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197457","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=197457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}