Kenya Muslims say U.S. backed torture and detention

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan Muslims marched on police headquarters in Nairobi on Thursday in protest against what they called the illegal detention and torture of fellow Muslims in an anti-terrorist drive urged on by the United States.

The protest involving a few dozen people followed months of simmering tensions between the east African nation's Muslim community and authorities they accuse of persecuting and arresting them on U.S. government orders.

"We don't expect this in our country. Just how much power do the Americans have over the Kenyan government?" said Al-Amin Kimathi, chairman of Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum.

Kenyan authorities could not be reached for comment.

The United States embassy in Nairobi said the United States was committed to working with regional partners to oppose terrorism.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL3033952920070830

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Looks like more than a few dozen people to me!

[Mnemosyne]

1. But check out the date of the photo full size. You get this paragraph:

Kenyan Muslims during a demonstration accusing Kenyan police of discriminate arrests and harassment in Nairobi, September 29, 2006. Kenyan Muslims marched on police headquarters in Nairobi on Thursday in protest against what they called the illegal detention and torture of fellow Muslims in an anti-terrorist drive urged on by the United States. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna


Why use a 2006 photo almost a year old? Wasn't a current photo available to Reuters?

Odd.