Gitobu Imanyara, a lawyer, has condemned officers at the Central Police Station for teargassing lawyers who had gone to bail out detained activists arrested during Saba Saba protests on Friday.
According to Imanyara, the officers’ actions were uncalled for because entering a police station to facilitate the release of suspects is not a crime.
“The crime is by the police officers who teargassed and violently chased them out of the police compound, a public place. We will never allow a return to a police state we were before 2010,” he said in a statement on Twitter.
Lawyers and human rights defenders were on Saturday teargassed at the police station as they sought the release of 32 pro-democracy activists who were nabbed during Friday’s protests.
