目だつ Kenyan LGBTQ 行動主義者 設立する dead, 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う 逮捕(する)d

Police say 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う in 保護/拘留 over death

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Homosexuality remains タブー 支配する for many in Kenya

(追加するs police 声明 on 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う 逮捕(する))

By Humphrey Malalo

NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Kenyan police on Friday said a 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う had been 逮捕(する)d in 関係 with the death of a 目だつ LGBTQ 権利s 選挙運動者 whose 団体/死体 was 設立する stuffed into a metal box in the west of the country.

Motorbike taxi riders 警報d police after they saw the box 捨てるd by the 道端 from a 乗り物 with a 隠すd number plate, The 基準 and The Daily Nation newspapers 報告(する)/憶測d, 引用するing police sources.

行動主義者 Edwin Chiloba's remains were 設立する on Tuesday 近づく Eldoret town in Uasin Gishu 郡, where he ran his fashion 商売/仕事, 独立した・無所属 権利s group the Kenya Human 権利s (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 (KHRC) said.

研究 示唆するs 受託 of homosexuality is 徐々に 増加するing in Kenya, but it remains a タブー 支配する for many. The country's film board has banned two films for their 描写s of gay lives in 最近の years.

The death drew 激しい非難 from several human 権利s groups, 含むing the International (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 of Jurists Kenya section, which called for the 迅速な 調査 and 逮捕 of those behind his 殺人,大当り.

"Chiloba's death is a 悲劇 and an affront to human dignity and 違反 of the 権利 to life #JusticeForChiloba," it said on Twitter.

Resila Onyango, Kenya 国家の Police Service's spokesperson, said officers had 逮捕(する)d one person in 関係 with Chiloba's death.

"Police 逮捕(する)d one male 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う in Eldoret on Friday. He is the main 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う but the 事柄 is still under 調査," she said in a text message to Reuters.

"Words cannot even explain how we as a community are feeling 権利 now. Edwin Chiloba was a 闘士,戦闘機, fighting relentlessly to change the hearts and minds of society when it (機の)カム to LGBTQ+ lives," GALCK, a Kenyan gay 権利s group, said on Twitter.

Under a British 植民地の-時代 法律, gay sex in Kenya is 罰せられるべき by 14 years in 刑務所,拘置所. It is rarely 施行するd but 差別 is ありふれた. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Humphrey Malalo; 令状ing by Hereward Holland; Editing by George Obulutsa and William Maclean)

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