{"id":4112,"date":"2014-07-15T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:57:26","slug":"amnesty-international-slams-slow-justice-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/amnesty-international-slams-slow-justice-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International slams \u2018slow justice\u2019 in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London &#8211; Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned what it said was the Kenyan government&#8217;s continued failure to properly investigate and deliver justice and compensation to victims of the 2007-2008 post-election violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix years after post-election violence rocked Kenya, the victims are still awaiting justice. It is vital that their voices are heard and urgent action is taken,\u201d said Amnesty secretary general Salil Shetty.<\/p>\n<p>About 1 000 people died and 600 000 others were displaced when ruling party and opposition supporters clashed over disputed poll results, in the worst unrest to hit the east African country since independence in 1963&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/amnesty-slams-slow-justice-in-kenya-1.1719995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>London &#8211; Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned what it said was the Kenyan government&#8217;s continued failure to properly investigate and deliver justice and compensation to victims of the 2007-2008 post-election violence. \u201cSix years after post-election violence rocked Kenya, the victims are still awaiting justice. It is vital that their voices are heard and urgent action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,2533,4695,4688,430,257,254,2768],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty-international","tag-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims-are-still-awaiting-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}