Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
On Thursday July 21, the British High Court made its first ruling in respect of the Mau Mau torture claims brought forward by initially five, now four claimants who were detained and tortured during Kenya’s so-called Emergency. Justice McCoome threw out the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s strikeout application on the grounds of state succession — essentially arguing that any liability for any torture passed to the government of Kenya at Independence — in a strongly worded judgment.
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