Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (or IPOA) on Thursday announced a police officer was being charged with murder in the shooting death of Yassin Hussein Moyo.
The IPOA said Thursday that five other police officers were facing charges over other deaths, shootings, and assaults that pre-dated Kenya’s curfew.
In a statement earlier this week, the oversight body said 15 deaths linked to police during the curfew are under investigation.
But rights groups say since Kenya’s curfew began March 27 police are responsible for at least 26 deaths, the vast majority in poor neighborhoods.
The IPOA says 87 complaints of police violence have been lodged since the curfew, including shootings, robbery, and sexual assault.
