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Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Outrage over arrest of kenyan software developer as regional repression grows - The Untold Story

Demonstrators opposed to the Kenyan government’s finance bill marching in Nairobi in July last year.
Demonstrators opposed to the Kenyan government’s finance bill marching in Nairobi in July last year. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

A Kenyan software developer and digital activist who was arrested last week after creating a tool for people to express their opposition to a proposed law has been arraigned in court and released on bail, amid public anger at her detention and growing signs of repression in the east African country and its neighbours.

Rose Njeri was on Tuesday accused of violating the country’s computer misuse and cybercrime law.

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