| | Four dissidents, Koigi wa Wamwere, Geoffrey Gatungu (G.G.) Ngengi Njuguna, James Maigua and Charles Kuria Wamwere, stand on trial for their lives in Nakuru, Kenya. Koigi wa Wamwere is an opposition politician, former MP, and human rights advocate. Detained on four previous occasions, he has spent much of the last 20 years in prison - though he now faces trial for the first time. The other three defendants are associates of Koigi, and two are his relatives. The trial, which began in April 1994, continues as I write. I spent eleven days in Kenya as a trial observer in October and November 1994, and concluded that what I viewed was unfair. |
