Kenya: Police Under Fire Over Death of Baby in Cell

18 August 2012

Human rights groups in Kericho have called on the police to take blame, following the death of an infant in a police cell. The infant was in the cell with its mother. The civil society want the police officers who allowed this to happen to be charged with contempt of court.

Lawyer Stella Koech said the death of Faraj Shaban would not have occurred if the police officers had obeyed a court order to have the one year-old infant admitted at Kericho District Hospital.

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