{"id":225150,"date":"2026-02-26T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-icj-kenya-denounces-detention-expulsion-of-zimbabwean-lawyer-and-rights-activist-brian-kagoro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:16:13","slug":"kenya-icj-kenya-denounces-detention-expulsion-of-zimbabwean-lawyer-and-rights-activist-brian-kagoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-icj-kenya-denounces-detention-expulsion-of-zimbabwean-lawyer-and-rights-activist-brian-kagoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: ICJ Kenya Denounces Detention, Expulsion of Zimbabwean Lawyer and Rights Activist Brian Kagoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>In a statement issued Thursday, ICJ Kenya denounced what it described as the unlawful denial of entry, detention, and subsequent expulsion of Kagoro on Sunday, February 22.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><strong>The International Commission of Jurists &#8211; Kenya Section (ICJ Kenya) has condemned the detention and deportation of Zimbabwean lawyer and prominent human rights defender Brian Kagoro, terming the move unconstitutional and part of a troubling trend of shrinking civic space in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Kagoro, a renowned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260269.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 In a statement issued Thursday, ICJ Kenya denounced what it described as the unlawful denial of entry, detention, and subsequent expulsion of Kagoro on Sunday, February 22. The International Commission of Jurists &#8211; Kenya Section (ICJ Kenya) has condemned the detention and deportation of Zimbabwean lawyer and prominent human rights defender Brian Kagoro, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225151,"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":[8956,258,256,46244,8435,6978,16826,25622,53765,4688,430,8000,257,5100,254,325],"class_list":["post-225150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brian","tag-denounces","tag-detention","tag-expulsion","tag-icj","tag-kagoro","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lawyer","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwean"],"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\/225150","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=225150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}