Peter Wanyama Wanyonyi
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2014-027-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2014
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: -0.023559
Longitude: 37.906193
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Kenya
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 26 September 2013
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
a human rights lawyer
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
assisting with cases of enforced disappearance, a number of which were transmitted to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 17 September 2013
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Bungoma
- Reprisal information
17 September 2013, in Bungoma in the Western Province of Kenya, Peter Wanyama Wanyonyi, a human rights lawyer, was shot dead by unknown gunmen as he was returning home from a meeting
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Physical attack: Killing
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Unclear
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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