Kenyan rights groups say protesters were found abandoned, tortured after being arrested | Objections

Six people have been found and one is missing, NGOs say, after they were arrested during the commemoration of protesters killed in 2024.

Six people found “abandoned on the side of the road” in Kenya were allegedly “beaten” and “tortured” after they were arrested at a memorial rally for protesters killed in 2024, rights groups say.

Amnesty International Kenya reported on X Saturday that six Kenyans – Collins Ochieng, Muteti Mulinge, Michael Ngigi, Elisha Alam, Fredrick Ojiro and Christine Walubengo – are missing after being arrested on Thursday.

The six people were found “dumped” in various places in Nairobi on Saturday morning, but the protester was missing, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) added.

“Three more of his friends have been found abandoned. Along with the three who were found earlier, they are said to have been ill-treated by the police while in custody,” KHRC said in a post on X.

“Currently, Davis Lichuma is still missing. His whereabouts are still unknown,” it added.

Amnesty Kenya said the group was “currently receiving medical treatment after they reported being beaten and tortured while in custody”.

About 355 People were arrested across the country on Thursday, according to Kenya’s Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen, as protests erupted. second year about the 2024 protests where 60 people were killed by security forces.

Several appeared in court Friday.

The six protesters were arrested outside Parliament and could not be reached since Thursday, according to freedom groups to be invited for his early release.

They were found injured and rushed to hospital, local media said.

“These allegations of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment require a prompt, independent and impartial investigation by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and those responsible must be held accountable,” said Amnesty Kenya.

East Africa has a long history of police brutality as well forced to disappear.

At least 127 people were killed in protests in Kenya in June-July 2024 and the same period in 2025, according to a police observer, when security forces shot protesters with impunity.