Keneth Kirimi
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2011-048-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2011
- 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
- 30 April 2010
- 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
uman rights activist working with the non-governmental organization Release Political Prisoners and member of Bunge la Mwananchi, a grass-roots movement fighting social injustice and promoting accountable leadership.
- Type of rights defended
- Accountability & impunity
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
The organization’s work on extrajudicial killings and the sharing of their report with the then Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston.
- 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
- 22 April 2010
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Thika; Suswa
- Reprisal information
He was arrested on 22 April 2010 by plainclothed police officers and was allegedly interrogated about his organization, the work carried out by the executive coordinator of the organization, the organization’s work on extrajudicial killings and the sharing of their report with the then Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston.
- see from follow-up info: following his arrest on 22 April 2010 by plain-clothedpoliceofficers, Mr. Kirimi was held incommunicado in Thika, before being blindfolded, sedated and taken to an isolated house in Suswa in the Narok district in Kenya. He was reportedly subjected to ill-treatment while in detention, including intimidation by gunshots, beatings and threats by police officers that they would sleep with his wife. 58. Mr. Kirimi was found on 25April 2010 dumped at Suswa Market in serious pain and with blood stains on his clothes.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Detention/Imprisonment: Detention/Imprisonment - General
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Physical attack: Torture/Cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Further case development
At the time of completion of the report, the Government of Kenya had not responded to the communication.
- 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?
- 1
- In which SG report was this case followed up on? 0
- 2012
- Follow up information provided in SG report 0
- In relation to the detention of Keneth Kirimi Mbae,which was mentioned in my 2011 report(A/HRC/18/19, para. 48), information received indicatesthat following his arrest on 22 April 2010 by plain-clothedpoliceofficers, Mr. Kirimi was held incommunicado in Thika, before being blindfolded, sedated and taken to an isolated house in Suswa in the Narok district in Kenya. He was reportedly subjected to ill-treatment while in detention, including intimidation by gunshots, beatings and threats by police officers that they would sleep with his wife. 58. Mr. Kirimi was found on 25April 2010 dumped at Suswa Market in serious pain and with blood stains on his clothes. The arbitrary arrest, secret detention, torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Kirimi was reportedly directly linked to his work in the defence of human rights. Mr. Kirimi met with the Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere on 6 May 2010. The Commissioner promised to investigate the case, but at the time of completion of the presentreport no information was available regarding developments in the investigation. The Government has to date not responded to the communication sent by several special procedures on 30 April 2010(A/HRC/17/28/Add.1, pp. 232-235)
- Followup Trends 0
- No substantive information provided by SG report
- Did the government respond? 0
- No