Dear friends, There's a new petition on the Avaaz Community Petition Site, and we thought you might be interested in it:
------------------------------ *President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta: Please Secure Justice for the Murders of Willie, Josephat and Joseph* <https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Kenyan_President_Uhuru_Kenyatta_Send_Willie_Kimanis_Murderers_To_Prison/?bsCVAhb&v=78720&cl=10334472492&_checksum=74c86c07b657c613b350194c6f5db8cf44d65e106a9ad0bd86a7c0f5e456303f> <https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Kenyan_President_Uhuru_Kenyatta_Send_Willie_Kimanis_Murderers_To_Prison/?bsCVAhb&v=78720&cl=10334472492&_checksum=74c86c07b657c613b350194c6f5db8cf44d65e106a9ad0bd86a7c0f5e456303f> [image: Sign the petition] <https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Kenyan_President_Uhuru_Kenyatta_Send_Willie_Kimanis_Murderers_To_Prison/?bsCVAhb&v=78720&cl=10334472492&_checksum=74c86c07b657c613b350194c6f5db8cf44d65e106a9ad0bd86a7c0f5e456303f> On June 23, 2016, Willie Kimani, a Kenyan human rights lawyer and father of two, went to a Nairobi courthouse, accompanying Josephat Mwenda, also Kenyan, in his defense against blatantly false charges by an abusive police force. The bodies of Willie, Josephat and their driver, Joseph Muiruri, were found in the Ol-Donyo Sabuk River eight days later. *The murderers of Willie, Josephat and Joseph must be prosecuted and sent to prison for this horrific violence. The ultimate well-being of Kenya and its citizens hangs in the balance.* In Kenya, it is far too easy for a corrupt or incompetent police officer to frame and imprison an innocent person, who must then wait in jail, often for years on end, for a chance to prove his or her innocence. According to a Kenyan government report, *the number of crimes reported to the police in 2015 involving the police increased by 34 percent.* This corrupt system has packed Kenyan prisons full of innocent men and women with no way out and no lawyer to fight for their release—*and the police who abuse their power are not held accountable*. Willie Kimani was working to protect the innocent from such abuse, and he was murdered while courageously pursuing that mission. *We are asking the Kenyan government to:* - Ensure the identification and meaningful prosecution of everyone involved with the murders of Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri; and - Immediately remove Samuel M. Arachi from his post as Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police in Kenya, on behalf of every innocent person abused by his police force. *Sign now to ensure this tragedy is a turning point in the fight for #JusticeinKenya.*For more information, go to: www.IJM.org/JusticeinKenya *Click below to sign the petition and forward to everyone: * https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Kenyan_President_Uhuru_Kenyatta_Send_Willie_Kimanis_Murderers_To_Prison/?bsCVAhb&v=78720&cl=10334472492&_checksum=74c86c07b657c613b350194c6f5db8cf44d65e106a9ad0bd86a7c0f5e456303f ------------------------------ With hope, Carol and the whole Avaaz team PS: This petition was started on Avaaz's new Community Petitions Site. It's quick and easy to start a petition on any issue you care about, click here: https://avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/?30311 *Avaaz.org is a 44-million-person global campaign network* that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here <https://www.avaaz.org/en/highlights.php/?footer>, or follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Avaaz> or Twitter <https://twitter.com/Avaaz>. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oo-YxWR%3Dbhgi_yCTjpKy-EZ6_aSxFLnHH36TTbxd%2ByGPA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
