The widow of a Pakistani journalist who was shot in 2022 by Kenyan police after fleeing arrest in his home country has sued Kenyan police.
Arshad Sharif, a strident critic of Pakistan’s powerful military establishment and supporter of former premier Imran Khan, died after Kenyan police opened fire on his car at a roadblock outside Nairobi in October 2022.
Javeria Siddique, one of Sharif’s two wives, told AFP in Islamabad last week that she was filing a lawsuit.
Her lawyer confirmed it had been lodged at Kenya’s High Court on Monday, a year to the day since the late-night killing.
‘The Kenyan police admitted that they killed my husband but never apologized.’
Last year, Kenyan officials said it was a case of mistaken identity and officers believed they were firing on a stolen vehicle involved in an abduction.
Siddique, however, alleges her husband was killed in a ‘targeted attack.’
Sharif fled Pakistan in August last year, days after interviewing a senior opposition politician who said junior officers in Pakistan’s military should disobey orders that went against ‘the will of the majority.’
