This archive report was first published on 2 July 2019.
On July 2, 2019, Robert Alai, a Kenyan blogger, was released on a Sh300,000 bail after spending two weeks in police custody.
Alai was accused of treason and disclosure of information against the law for posting pictures of police officers killed in a terror attack in Wajir.
Hours after his release, Alai took to Twitter, where he maintained that policemen and women should be handled with dignity.
"We won't beg and we won't hide. Our men and women in uniform will have to be treated with dignity whether dead or alive," he tweeted.
Alai's lawyer, Paul Muite, had pleaded with the court to release him on a favourable cash bail so that he could unite with his family.
"People of Kenya have a right to information and journalists have absolute rights to inform the public of what is happening within the surrounding," Muite said.
