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"We're tired of taking you to the court" : human rights abuses by Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit
- Title
- "We're tired of taking you to the court" : human rights abuses by Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit / [written by Jonathan Horowitz and staff members from the Kenyan NGO Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI)].
- Author
- Horowitz, Jonathan
- Publication
- New York : Open Society Foundations, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- 91 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The Kenyan government has credited its Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) with providing a robust counterterrorism response, thwarting dozens of terrorist plots, and arresting or killing dozens of terrorist suspects. But, in carrying out its work, the ATPU has committed a wide array of human rights abuses that violate international, regional, and domestic law. This report is based on over 40 interviews carried out by researchers from the Open Society Justice Initiative and Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) a non-governmental organization based in Mombasa, Kenya. It includes credible allegations of extrajudicial killings, beatings of terrorist suspects, arbitrary detention, renditions, and the disappearance of at least one man by the ATPU. The report traces ATPU abuses from 2007 to the present and demonstrates that the ATPU's abuses are counterproductive to combatting terrorism and destroy the trust between communities and Kenya's security forces. At a time when Kenya is undertaking sweeping reforms to limit the police's excessive powers, the ATPU must receive greater scrutiny and oversight. ATPU officials must be held accountable for their human rights abuses, and victims must receive reparations. In addition, the new police reforms must be urgently implemented. Finally it is important that foreign security assistance does not help to fund security forces such as the ATPU that commit human rights abuses.
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- Note
- " This report was written by Jonathan Horowitz, Legal officer for the Open Society Justice Initiative's National Security and Counterterrorism program, and staff members from the Kenyan NGO Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI)"--Acknowledgments.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Methodology -- Executive summary and recommendations -- Introduction -- Anti-Terrorism Police Unit human rights abuses -- ATPU detention of Swaleh Abdullah Said, October 9, 2013 -- ATPU detention operation, November 13-14, 2012 -- Other ATPU raids and detainee abuse -- Allegations of unlawful killings and disappearances -- Renditions and transfers to torture: Uganda, Somalia, and United States -- Impact of ATPU abuses on the community -- Police reform and the legal framework for counterterrorism policing -- International, regional, and domestic human rights protections -- Gaps in law and implementation -- Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2012--A human rights analysis -- Vaguely and broadly defined -- Mens Rea -- Criminalization of membership -- Due process guarantees -- Severity of punishment -- Conclusion -- Notes.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1397
- ISBN
- 9781940983004
- 1940983002
- OCLC
- 863637277
- Author
- Horowitz, Jonathan, author.
- Title
- "We're tired of taking you to the court" : human rights abuses by Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit / [written by Jonathan Horowitz and staff members from the Kenyan NGO Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI)].
- Publisher
- New York : Open Society Foundations, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Added Author
- Muslims for Human Rights (Kenya), author.Open Society Justice Initiative.Open Society Foundations.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1397