Civil society groups, legal practitioners, and relatives of four filmmakers arrested last Friday are mounting pressure on the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to return confiscated electronic equipment, days after their release on free bond.
The items still held by DCI include phones, laptops, and CPU units, which the filmmakers rely on for their daily production work.
The four who include Nicholas Wambugu, Brian Adagala, Chris Wamae, and Mark Denver Karubiu were picked up from their Karen-based studio on Friday evening and spent the night in police custody at Pangani and Muthaiga police stations.
The arrests were reportedly linked to the controversial BBC documentary "The Blood Parliament", though no formal charges have been preferred against the four, raising alarm among rights groups who now view the detentions as intimidation tactics.
