More than 270 people arrested in antigovernment rallies in Kenya
Al Jazeera
Police say protests were co-opted by ‘suspects’ engaging in ‘criminal activities’.
Kenyan police have arrested more than 270 people who they said were masquerading as protesters and suspected of going on a criminal rampage during antigovernment rallies in the country.
“Security forces across the country singled out suspects found engaging in criminal activities in the guise of protesting and took them to custody,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said in a statement posted on X late on Tuesday.
It said 204 suspects were arrested in Nairobi, the capital, and another 68 in other areas of the country.
“The DCI has further deployed scrupulous investigators across the affected regions to pursue suspects captured on CCTV cameras and mobile phone recordings violently robbing, stealing and destroying properties and businesses of innocent citizens,” the statement added.
