Illegal Detention

NAIROBI, KENYA - After spending over two years in a Nairobi jail, falsely imprisoned for a crime they never committed, Benson, Victor and Francis were finally freed last month.

NAIROBI, KENYA - On 8th December, IJM Kenya staff delivered thousands of letters of encouragement to Joseph, a father of six who is unjustly in prison and facing a death sentence for a crime he nev

NAIROBI, KENYA  - Anjeche spent eighteen months in an overcrowded Kenyan prison for crimes he did not commit.

NAIROBI, KENYA - In May 2011, a 78-year-old man left death row - raising his frail arms in a sign of victory as he slowly but joyfully walked through the Nairobi prison's brightly painted front gat

Dalton* worked as a night watchman at a housing c

NAIROBI, KENYA - Released on New Year's Eve after 16 months of incarceration in Nairobi's Industrial Remand Prison, 42-year-old Peter began 2010 a free man.

Ten years ago, as a wave of bank robberies swept Kenya, bank employees like Stephen anxiously wondered if their branches would be struck by the crime. The tense speculation did not last long: Stephen’s branch was soon hit by thieves who robbed the bank and shot a police officer while making their escape. Shaken by the incident, Stephen and his colleagues wondered if the perpetrators would ever be found.