Kenya : Taking Liberties

This is an assessment of the human rights situation in Kenya and the efforts to promote the rule of law and an open, accountable system of government.

The book also details the measures by the government against rural and urban squatter communities; conditions of confinement in detention facilities and prisons for those charged with common crimes as well as those held for political offences; the violence with which Kenya annexed 14,000 square kilometres of disputed territory on the border between Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia in 1988; the brutality in the implementation of emergency powers in the North Eastern Province; and the "screening" of ethnic Somalis; and the ill-treatment of refugees from Kenya's war-torn neighbours.