Kenyan LGBTQ 行動主義者's 団体/死体 設立する in metal box; 1 逮捕(する)d

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan police 調査/捜査するd the death of an LGBTQ 行動主義者 whose 団体/死体 was 設立する stuffed in a metal box as human 権利s groups on Friday decried the 殺人,大当り and police 発表するd one 逮捕(する).

Edwin Chiloba's 団体/死体 was 設立する Wednesday on a road in Uasin Gishu 郡, in the west of the country.

Police say a motorcycle taxi 操作者 報告(する)/憶測d seeing the box 存在 捨てるd by a 乗り物 with no license plates. The rider 報告(する)/憶測d it to police officers who were operating a nearby roadblock.

Officers who opened the box 設立する the 分解するing 団体/死体 of a man they 述べるd as wearing women's 着せる/賦与するs. The 団体/死体 was identified as Chiloba's and was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to 設立する the 原因(となる) of death.

The 動機 wasn't yet known, police spokesperson Resila Onyango said.

"We don´t know for now why he was killed that way. 専門家s are 扱うing the 事柄," she said.

LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba poses in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are investigating the death of Chiloba, an LGBT activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu County, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa via AP)

LGBT 行動主義者 Edwin Chiloba 提起する/ポーズをとるs in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are 調査/捜査するing the death of Chiloba, an LGBT 行動主義者 whose 団体/死体 was 設立する stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu 郡, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa 経由で AP)

Uasin Gichu 郡 犯罪の 調査s boss Peter Kimulwo told 新聞記者/雑誌記者s Friday that one person was 逮捕(する)d after neighbors 報告(する)/憶測d seeing him and two others move a metal box from Chiloba's house.

Neighbors said that the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う, Jacktone Odhiambo, a photographer based in the 資本/首都, Nairobi, spent New Year's Day with Chiloba and that they heard commotion and crying, Kimulwo said. Chiloba was not seen again by his neighbors after that night.

Neighbors were curious about a foul smell coming from Chiloba's house, and Odhiambo told them it was from a dead ネズミ, Kimulwo said.

It wasn't すぐに (疑いを)晴らす Friday whether Odhiambo had a lawyer or other 代表者/国会議員 to speak on his に代わって.

Chiloba has in the past been attacked and 強襲,強姦d for his activism, his friend Denis Nzioka tweeted Thursday.

The Kenya Human 権利s (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 said Friday that Chiloba was a 犠牲者 of "another disgusting 行為/法令/行動する of homophobic 暴力/激しさ."

国際アムネスティ 長官-General Agn?s Callamard tweeted that a 十分な and 独立した・無所属 調査 into Chiloba's "heart-breaking" 殺人,大当り must be carried out, "leaving no 石/投石する unturned."

Chiloba, who w as a fashion designer, was eulogized by 地元の 行動主義者 Njeri Migwi, who said that "he 具体的に表現するd fashion."

The calls for 司法(官) have spread outside Kenya as Ghanaian human 権利s organization Rightify called on 大統領 William Ruto to "確実にする the 保護 and 昇進/宣伝 of human 権利s of 性の and gender 少数,小数派s."

LGBTQ people living in Kenya have often decried 差別 and attacks in a country where sex between men is 違法な. Kenya is 大部分は a 保守的な society, and the 大統領,/社長 has in past said that gay 権利s are a nonissue in the country.

CORRECTS NAME TO Edwin Chiloba - LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba poses in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are investigating the death of Chiluba, an LGBT activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu County, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa via AP)

CORRECTS NAME TO Edwin Chiloba - LGBT 行動主義者 Edwin Chiloba 提起する/ポーズをとるs in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are 調査/捜査するing the death of Chiluba, an LGBT 行動主義者 whose 団体/死体 was 設立する stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu 郡, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa 経由で AP)

FIle - Kenyan members and supporters of the LGTB community wear masks to preserve their anonymity as they stage a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Police in Kenya are investigating the death of LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba, whose body was found on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, stuffed in a metal box on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in the west of the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

FIle - Kenyan members and 支持者s of the LGTB community wear masks to 保存する their anonymity as they 行う/開催する/段階 a 抗議する in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Police in Kenya are 調査/捜査するing the death of LGBT 行動主義者 Edwin Chiloba, whose 団体/死体 was 設立する on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, stuffed in a metal box on a road in Uasin Gishu 郡, in the west of the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, とじ込み/提出する)

CORRECTS NAME TO Edwin Chiloba - LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba poses in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are investigating the death of Chiluba, an LGBT activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu County, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa via AP)

CORRECTS NAME TO Edwin Chiloba - LGBT 行動主義者 Edwin Chiloba 提起する/ポーズをとるs in Eldoret, Kenya, in this undated photo. Police in Kenya are 調査/捜査するing the death of Chiluba, an LGBT 行動主義者 whose 団体/死体 was 設立する stuffed in a metal box on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on a road in Uasin Gishu 郡, west of Kenya. (Lawrence Leteipa 経由で AP)

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