Kenyan police teargas anti-femicide protesters

(25 Nov 2024)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 25 November 2024
1. Various of protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Swahili): "Women are dying" during protest against femicide to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
2. Various of protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Kiswahili): "The constitution is our strength"
3. Various of protesters chanting, UPSOUND (English): "Stop killing women, women lives matter"
4. Protesters scattered by tear gas thrown by plain-clothes police
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Waithira Karanja, Nairobi resident:
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"The police are the ones who kill women, which is why they do not want us to protest against their killing of women. They are supposed to be protecting us, but they are the ones who are propagating violence against us. So we want accountability."
6. Various of protesters, tear gas
STORYLINE:
Police dispersed a peaceful march commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Nairobi with tear gas on Monday.

A handful of protesters had shown up for the anti-femicide march on a drizzling morning.

Chanting slogans like "stop killing women, women’s lives matter" and "the constitution is our strength", the protesters lamented the police’s reaction and highlighted what they said was a lack of government action.

According to Kenyan police agencies, 97 cases of femicide have been reported in various parts of the country in the last three months alone.

AP Video shot by Idi Ali Juma

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