Kenya defends deportations as rights watchers call for accountability

Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’oei.

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Kenya says its human rights record remains intact despite recent incidents in which foreign dissidents were deported.

Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’oei told an audience last week that Kenya’s decisions had been misunderstood and that criticism of those decisions was “completely misplaced”.