"You are all terrorists" : Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi /

"You are all terrorists" : Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Simpson, Gerald.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Human Rights Watch, 2013.
Description:	ii, 68 pages : 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Refugees -- Abuse of -- Kenya. Police brutality -- Kenya. Police corruption -- Kenya. Torture -- Kenya. Detention of persons -- Kenya. Rape -- Kenya. Detention of persons. Police brutality. Police corruption. Rape. Refugees -- Abuse of. Torture. Kenya.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9132978

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Varying Form of Title:	Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi Kenya : "You are all terrorists"
Other authors / contributors:	Human Rights Watch (Organization), publisher.
ISBN:	9781623130176 1623130174
Notes:	"This report was researched and written by Gerry Simpson ..."--Page 68. "May 2013." Includes bibliographical references. Also issued online.
Summary:	This report was based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report documents how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi's mainly Somali suburb of Eastleigh and a government order to relocate urban refugees to refugee camps as an excuse to rape, beat, extort money from, and arbitrarily detain, at least 1,000 people. The police described their victims as "terrorists," and demanded payments to free them. Human Rights Watch also documented 50 cases in which the abuses would amount to torture.

Table of Contents:

Map.
Summary.
Recommendations.
Methodology.
Background.
Torture, rape, beatings, and extortion by the Kenyan police.
Arbitrary detention and criminal charges without evidence.
Kenya's refugee relocation plan.
UNHCR's response.
Ongoing crisis in the Dadaab refugee camps.
Insecurity in Somalia and the risk of refoulement.
Acknowledgments.