Hundreds of protesters took to Nairobi streets recently to condemn the humiliating public stripping of three women. These three women were stripped and paraded on the street for dressing 'indecently'. In addition to several protests from different organizations, the Law Society of Kenya has requested that the suspects to these assaults be prosecuted.
Hundreds of protesters took to Nairobi streets recently to condemn the humiliating public stripping of three women. These three women were stripped and paraded on the street for dressing 'indecently'. With mobile phones everywhere these days, someone recorded it and loaded it on the Internet, and it went viral.
Kenyan authorities have made over 100 arrests of people suspected to have taken part in the assaults. In addition to several protests from different organizations, the Law Society of Kenya has requested that the suspects to these assaults are prosecuted. The protests have made it to the newsdesk of CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera.
The first case of stripping women happened earlier in the month while the second occurred recently. These assaults are related to the Kenyan Anti-pornography bill which outlaws overtly sexual material including music videos, as well as any material which shows parts of the body including breasts, thighs and buttocks, or any erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement.
The result of this law is obvious --a wrong publicity for the nation of Kenya. Although Kenya is a conservative country, many of its residents have criticized the 'pornography bill'. A Kenyan newspaper calls it a "conservative evangelical-fuelled political movement pushed through a “pornography” law".
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