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Kenyans react to Saba Saba with fear, defiance and calls for justice

Heavy police deployments and protest bans marked this year's Saba Saba Day in Kenya, but many citizens say the anniversary remains a powerful symbol of the country's unfinished democratic journey. While fear kept crowds small, activists insisted the fight for justice is far from over.

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00:00Kenyans have reacted to the heavy police deployment that halted this year's Sabasaba Day demonstrations
00:06as security forces fanned out across Nairobi to stop people from assembling in protest against corruption,
00:14rising living costs and alleged police brutality.
00:17We've been met by brutal police who have denied us even to take this petition to the parliament.
00:26So we are telling the members of the public that we are being hunted in our own country.
00:31We are being hunted in Kenya as if we are not part of Kenyans.
00:36Organizers from the economic justice movement say they had planned a peaceful march to deliver a petition to parliament
00:43calling for action against alleged extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances and arbitrary arrests.
00:50To us, Sabasaba is more than a commemoration. It is more than nostalgia.
00:54It is a reminder of an unfinished sentence, an unfinished work that has never been completed,
01:01a country that is still a work in progress, because whatever our heroes were fighting for in 1990
01:06has still not been achieved in 2026. That is six years later.
01:12Rights groups say fear is keeping many Kenyans away from the streets after deadly demonstrations in 2024 and 2025.
01:19People are still being abducted. There are extrajudicial killings.
01:25And a lot of people are being detained and prosecuted on trumped-up charges.
01:31That's just on the area of human rights.
01:34The crackdown comes as neighboring Tanzania also deployed heavy security to prevent planned Sabasaba demonstrations,
01:42highlighting a growing regional trend of strict restrictions on public protests.
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