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Kenya’s police chief has suspended the head of a police station and all officers who were on duty at the time when a man who had been detained for “false publication” died in custody.<\/p>\n
Albert Ojwang was arrested for a post on X in the western town of Homa Bay and then driven 350km (220 miles) to the capital, Nairobi, his father Meshack Opiyo told journalists.<\/p>\n
“While in custody, the suspect sustained head injuries after hitting his head against a cell wall,” a police statement said<\/a>. He was rushed to hospital “where he was pronounced dead on arrival”.<\/p>\n The director of rights group Amnesty International’s Kenya branch told the BBC that the death of Mr Ojwang was “very suspicious”.<\/p>\n Amnesty said in a statement<\/a> that the death of the young man, described as a teacher and blogger, “raises serious questions that must be urgently, thoroughly, and independently investigated”.<\/p>\n Senior police officer Stephen Okal is quoted by the Star newspaper<\/a> as saying what happened in the cell was “an attempted suicide”.<\/p>\n