Kenya Muslims say U.S. backed torture, detention

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Source: Reuters

Kenya Muslims say U.S. backed torture, detention
30 Aug 2007 13:37:28 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Jeremy Clarke

NAIROBI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Kenyan Muslims marched
on police headquarters in Nairobi on Thursday in
protest against what they called the illegal detention
and torture of fellow Muslims in an anti-terrorist
drive urged on by the United States.

The protest involving a few dozen Kenyans followed
months of simmering tensions between the east African
nation's Muslim community and authorities they accuse
of persecuting and arresting them on U.S. government
orders.

"We don't expect this in our country. Just how much
power do the Americans have over the Kenyan
government?" said Al-Amin Kimathi, chairman of
Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum.

American and Kenyan authorities said they could not
immediately comment. Human Rights groups accuse
Kenya of involvement in a clandestine U.S. practice of
detainee transfer.

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