This archive report was first published on 24 June 2020.
Since Kenya introduced measures to combat Covid-19 in March, police have killed at least 15 people and seriously injured another 31.
On Tuesday, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) revealed that the family of 13-year-old Yassin Moyo, a Standard Eight pupil killed by police in March, had been facing threats and intimidation.
Yassin was playing on the balcony when a bullet hit his stomach on the night of March 31.
His family is now being asked to keep quiet and let the matter slide, with IPOA believing that the individuals threatening them are proxies of the police officer, Duncan Ndiwa, who has been charged with shooting Yassin.
But Yassin's case is not an isolated incident. In February last year, Kevin Otieno, 24, and his family found themselves in a similar situation.
They were trying to survive a cold night in the streets of Nairobi when a police operation started, and Otieno's wife was clobbered while trying to protect their two-month-old baby.
When the officer heard the baby cry, he backed off and apologised, saying he did not know there was a baby there.
While Otieno has managed to rent a house in Majengo for Sh2,000 a month, he still spends several nights in Nairobi's streets pushing hand carts for a living because his wife delivered another baby.
Demas Kiprono, Amnesty International's safety and dignity manager, says that the fight against police brutality is far from being won, but believes that prosecution has been a relatively successful tool in the past few years.
