Kenya fails to submit torture report

• Kenya ratified the Convention in 1997 and was expected to submit its first state report to the UNCAT Committee against torture within a year of ratification but this happened almost a decade later in February 2007.

“We intend to document more voices on the same so that we can establish whether the acts were random or planned to target a group of people. We are also interested in knowing who the perpetrators are,” she said.

The lobby’s legal redress officer Vincet Kodongo said the evidence collected from the fishermen would be presented to the regional court to set precedent in the expanded block.