"Kenyan authorities should urgently obey a court order to either release or produce Miguna Miguna in court,” said Otsieno Namwaya, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The flagrant flouting of court orders undermines the basic concept of the rule of law.”
Odinga, presidential candidate for the leading opposition coalition, NASA, rejected Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the country’s presidential election, after a court ordered a rerun of the August 8 election. Miguna and another lawyer, Tom Kajwang, swore in Odinga in as "the people’s president” on January 30 on the basis of August 8 election results, which Odinga and his NASA coalition insist they won.
The authorities also ignored a February 1 court order suspending the government shutdown of mainstream television and radio stations on January 30.
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Kenya: Bring Detained Lawyer to Court
Kenyan police should urgently produce Miguna Miguna, an opposition party lawyer who was arrested in Nairobi on February 2, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today.