00:00Kenyans have reacted to the heavy police deployment that halted this year's Sabasaba Day demonstrations
00:06as security forces fanned out across Nairobi to stop people from assembling in protest against corruption,
00:14rising living costs and alleged police brutality.
00:17We've been met by brutal police who have denied us even to take this petition to the parliament.
00:26So we are telling the members of the public that we are being hunted in our own country.
00:31We are being hunted in Kenya as if we are not part of Kenyans.
00:36Organizers from the economic justice movement say they had planned a peaceful march to deliver a petition to parliament
00:43calling for action against alleged extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances and arbitrary arrests.
00:50To us, Sabasaba is more than a commemoration. It is more than nostalgia.
00:54It is a reminder of an unfinished sentence, an unfinished work that has never been completed,
01:01a country that is still a work in progress, because whatever our heroes were fighting for in 1990
01:06has still not been achieved in 2026. That is six years later.
01:12Rights groups say fear is keeping many Kenyans away from the streets after deadly demonstrations in 2024 and 2025.
01:19People are still being abducted. There are extrajudicial killings.
01:25And a lot of people are being detained and prosecuted on trumped-up charges.
01:31That's just on the area of human rights.
01:34The crackdown comes as neighboring Tanzania also deployed heavy security to prevent planned Sabasaba demonstrations,
01:42highlighting a growing regional trend of strict restrictions on public protests.
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