Kenya: More Than 1,000 Somalis Rounded Up in Nairobi, Held Incommunicado

7 April 2014

The United Nations has yet to access more than 1,000 Somalis who have been arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Nairobi, the majority held in a stadium that some have dubbed a "concentration camp".

On April 2, the police started arresting people without identity documents in the Somali dominated suburb of Eastleigh, following a blast in the area on March 31 which killed six people.

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