Kenya: Ensure Violence-Free Polls

Email The Kenyan government’s limited progress on promised reforms and failure to address ongoing and past human rights abuses have contributed to tensions across Kenya prior to national elections on March 4, 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The authorities should take urgent steps, including the arrest and fair trial of all those who directly incite or organize violence, to help ensure the elections are peaceful, free, and fair. (Nairobi) – The Kenyan government’s limited progress on promised reforms and failure to address ongoing and past human rights…

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