Their Families Never Accepted the Official Account of Their Deaths. Now Police Are Taking Another Look

Why journalists should have long investigated deaths in police hands

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, the Nation newspaper carried an article about the Senate demanding answers over increased deaths of Kenyans in police and prison custody. In the story titled, ‘Senator’s fury over mystery deaths of detainees in police and prisons custody,’ Nation reported that senators were alarmed by a worrying trend of unexplained deaths of detainees and prisoners in custody across the country. They wanted the National Police Service …