James Mukhwana, a Kenyan police officer, appears in court in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, June 13, 2025, after being arrested in connection with the death of blogger Albert Ojwang while in police custody.

Demonstrators react to the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang, who died while in police custody in Nairobi, Monday, June 9, 2025.© AP Photo ...

A Kenyan blogger who died in police custody was hit on the head and his death was likely to have been caused by assault, a post-mortem has revealed.

A demonstrator is attended to after being injured during a protest over the death in police custody of blogger Albert Ojwang, in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, June 12, 2025. Credit: AP/Andrew Kasuku ...

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Outrage over the death of a Kenyan blogger in police custody sparked protests in the capital Nairobi this week after doctors refuted a police claim that the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya —Protests erupted across Kenya Thursday over the death of 31-year-old blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances.

Thousands of people protested in cities across Kenya after a blogger critical of the government died in police custody. Authorities had previously claimed that Albert Ojwang died from self ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's deputy police chief stepped aside on Monday as investigations into the death of a blogger while in custody continue.

Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday that he’d received the news of Ojwang’s death “with utter shock and dismay.” “This tragic occurrence, at the hands of the police, is ...

NAIROBI, Kenya —Protests erupted across Kenya Thursday over the death of 31-year-old blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances.

He said that the autopsy was carried out by a team of five pathologists. The head of Kenya’s police, Kanja, on Wednesday retracted the initial claim on Ojwang’s cause of death.