Journalist and lawyer Wahome Thuku was yesterday arrested and booked at the Parliament police station for allegedly defaming Hon. Kabando wa Kabando, the Member of Parliament for Mukurweini constituency. On 1st of July 2015, Wahome is alleged to have...
Kenyan Jessica Musila is among the five 2015 Internet Freedom Fellows.
Jessica Musila is the Executive Director of Mzalendo Trust, the organization behind www.mzalendo.com, Kenya’s premier Parliamentary Monitoring Initiative. Over the last four years, she has spearheaded Mzalendo’s evolution...
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With a complainant and a good lawyer the Nakuru radio station, Hero FM, that delivered news of HIV/AIDS infection to an unsuspecting man can be found guilty and fined. This is because the programme followed...
A Nakuru based radio station, Hero FM, has replayed the 2010 stigmatization against people living with HIV/AIDS in which Classic 105's Ciku Muiruri 'busted' a woman who was alleged to be having an affair with her boss. Just like...
University student Allan Wadi Okengo who was sentenced to jail in January this year to serve a 2 year jail sentence for hate speech remarks on his Facebook page and undermining the authority of a public officer has been...
By Lorna Abuga.
A Nakuru journalist has been interrogated by detectives following a post he published on social media challenging land grabbing in the country.
Elijah Kinyanjui a veteran journalist who has worked with almost all leading newspapers in the country...
The court case against blogger Cyprian Nyakundi highlights the need to learn about online freedoms and responsibilities. Certainly the internet does not exist in a vacuum.
Nyakundi, after reading the summons to appear in the newspaper tweeted
Safaricom is suing me...
Safaricom has sued blogger Cyprian Nyakundi for defamation. In a paid advertisement in the Nation, dated 24th June 2015 on page 51, Honorable Justice Mabeya has ordered Nyakundi to do among others;
1. Pull down all posts in his blog...
Bloggers in Kenya have had, in several instances, to ‘save’ their credibility and explain a few things including the doubts and the notion that they are just but social media trouble makers who will write about anything sensational and...
Residents of the Gioto dump site in Nakuru are unhappy with The Star newspaper following a story the paper published that they claim has linked some of their members to the Al-Shabaab terror group.
The story in question was published...
