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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Humphrey Malalo

Kenyan policemen handed heavy sentences for killing of human rights lawyer

Former Kenyan police officers Fredrick Leliman who was given a death penalty and Stephen Chebulet, who was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment, sit in the dock after they were found guilty of killing human rights lawyer, Willie Kimani, his client and their driver at Milimani Law courts in Nairobi, Kenya, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

A Kenyan court on Friday handed decades-long prison sentences to three police officers and their civilian informant for the 2016 murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani.

Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and their driver Joseph Muiruri were killed shortly after filing a complaint of police brutality alleging that Mwendwa had been shot and injured by police.

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