Kenya: Protests Mount Over Inaction for Raped 'Liz'

31 October 2013

Nairobi — A group of women demanding justice for a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped in Western Kenya have demonstrated in Nairobi, marching to Police Headquarters at Jogoo House where they hang inner-wear on the fence as a show of protest.

The placard-carrying women said they were enraged because the police had initially arrested three of the attackers - all aged between 16 and 20 - and only punished them with an order to cut grass at a police station compound.

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