Activist and photojournalist Boniface Mwangi risks arrest after failing to appear in court to answer charges of assaulting police officers.
According to the charge sheet, Mwangi is accused of assaulting two officers on separate occasions while they were discharging their official duties.
In the first count, he allegedly assaulted Sergeant Osman Omar on April 20 at the Metropolitan Court in the Kilimani area, Dagoretti Sub-County, Nairobi, causing actual bodily harm while the officer was on duty.
In a second count, Mwangi is accused of wilfully assaulting Police Constable Robert Oyola at the same location on April 2, also causing actual bodily harm.
