On Eve of Obama Visit, Kenyans Warn of Waning Press Freedom

The attackers who came for John Kituyi one night in April weren’t interested in robbery. According to police reports, the unidentified assailants approached Kituyi as he was leaving his office at the headquarters of The Mirror Weekly, a newspaper in the Kenyan city of Eldoret, and bludgeoned him just steps from his home. While the attackers took Kituyi’s cell phone, they left his cash and wristwatch untouched, with Kituyi lying in a pool of blood as their motorbike sped away.