On June 12, PBI-Kenya posted: “Today, we stand in solidarity with families of victims of police killings. The #TrialOfAhmedRashid, formerly of Pangani 9, continues before Justice Kavedza at Kibera Law Court. Rashid was charged with the 2017 murders of Jamal Mohammed and Mohammed Dhair Kheri in Eastleigh.”
Yesterday, the Mathare Social Justice Centre posted: “Join us tomorrow & Thursday, June 12 & 13, at the Kibera Court from 9 am, as we attend the court case of killer-cop Ahmed Rashid. We will be there to demand justice for all of our loved ones killed by his bullets. We all have a right to life! @MothersVictims”
Citizen Digital has previously reported: “The case gained notoriety after a video surfaced on social media on March 31, 2017, showing Rashid, clad in civilian clothes, shooting two young individuals on the ground in the Eastleigh area. The incident which occurred in broad daylight and in the presence of onlookers, led to Rashid being branded the ‘killer cop’.”
PBI-Kenya and the Social Justice Centre Working Group are members of the Missing Voices Coalition (MVC).
Missing Voices on Ahmed Rashid case
The Missing Voices Coalition has explained: “Ahmed Rashid, the police officer who served for many years at Pangani Police Station and was said to allegedly belong to a group of officers called the ‘Pangani Six’, was charged at Kibera Law Courts on March 14th, 2024, with the murder of two teenagers, Jamal Mohamed and Mohamed Dhahir Kheri. He allegedly shot the two fatally in 2017, and the incident was recorded in a video that went viral thereafter.”
Missing Voices also notes: “It is important to maintain pressure from the public if police impunity and brutality are to be dealt a blow in Kenya. Both human rights activists and the general public have maintained their interest in the case [of Ahmed Rashid], making it difficult for plans to delay its commencement to succeed. In particular, human rights activists, especially members of the Social Justice Centres (SJC), who are members of MVC, have used the case to educate the public on extrajudicial killings and its negative impact on the rights of individuals as guaranteed by the country’s constitution and the international instruments, which Kenya has ratified.”
The Missing Voices Coalition commentary on this case can be read on pages 21-23 here.
Missing Voices documents police killings
The Missing Voices annual report released in April 2024 noted: “The first of the important developments in 2023 was MVC’s reporting of a reduced number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances from the figures it recorded in 2022. As this report shows, the number of those killed extra-judicially reduced by 9.2%, from 130 in 2022, to 118 in 2023, while enforced disappearances reduced from 22 in 2022 to 10 in 2023, a 54.5% decrease.”
We continue to follow this case.
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