Kenyan police have been accused of committing the majority of sexual violence reported during last year’s opposition protests over election results, says the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
The report says sexual assault was used as punishment in certain areas, with both opposition and ruling party neighbourhoods targeted, in over 200 cases.
Kenya’s national police said it rejects in totality the reports ‘sensational, preposterous, assertions’ and urged anyone sexually assaulted by an officer to report this for investigation.