Weekly Citizen Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

The most recent issue of the Mirror Weekly in Kenya. (Media Council of Kenya)

Kenyan editor murdered by unknown assailants in Eldoret town

May 1, 2015 4:05 PM EDT

Nairobi, May 1, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret to do their utmost to identify and prosecute the killers of journalist John Kituyi on Thursday.

Joel Eshikumo has been threatened repeatedly over photographs he took in court. (Joel Eshikumo)

Journalist in western Kenya faces death threats

May 10, 2012 12:11 PM EDT

New York, May 10, 2012–Kenyan authorities must immediately investigate recent death threats against a Kenyan journalist, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Local businessman Armstrong Pino allegedly threatened Joel Eshikumo, a reporter for the Weekly Citizen and a political columnist for the weekly Western Times, in public on Saturday over photographs the journalist had…

Kenyan police are accused of widespread extrajudicial killings, including the murder of reporter Francis Nyaruri. (AFP/Tony Karumba)

Attacks on the Press in 2011: Killing, Coverup in Kenya

February 21, 2012 11:31 PM EST

It is not too late for justice for Francis Nyaruri, who was killed in 2009 after he wrote a story on police corruption. The murder comes against a backdrop of widespread extrajudicial killing. By Tom Rhodes with reporting from Clifford Derrick

From left, Francis Nyaruri's father, Peter Nyaruri; Peter's wife; the journalist's widow, Josephine Kwamboka; and his sister (CPJ)

Glimmer of hope for justice in Kenyan death

November 3, 2011 4:28 PM EDT

Slain journalist Francis Nyaruri received threatening calls from a senior policeman shortly before he disappeared and his decapitated body was found in Kodera forest, western Kenya, a court sitting in Kisumu heard today in the presence of two murder suspects and four witnesses.