The death of 31-year-old Albert Ojwang has raised serious questions after he was arrested in Homa Bay on Saturday and later died while in police custody in Nairobi.
Ojwang was seized by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), reportedly over allegations of publishing false information online.
The latest clampdown on social media users comes barely a week after a software developer, Rose Njeri was arrested in an alarming trend of the government's intolerance on critical voices.
Ojwang was transferred to Nairobi the same day and booked at Central Police Station, where he succumbed under unclear circumstances, though police claimed he died by suicide.
