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Kenya: Rights Groups, Journalists Condemn TV Shutdown
Nation, 1 February 2018
Five civil society organisations have asked the State to unconditionally restore TV transmission for three stations that it shut on Tuesday. Read more »
Activists, together with the Kenya Union of Journalists, have threatened to sue the government following the closure of three major TV stations namely NTV, KTN News and Citizen for the live broadcast of the "swearing-in" of opposition National Super Alliance leader, Raila Odinga, as the people's president.
TV camera persons at work (file photo).
A Kenyan court has suspended the shutdown of television stations for 14 days pending a hearing of the case challenging the switch off, according to The East African. Earlier ... Read more »
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