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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Kimeu

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Three arrested in kenya as backlash grows over period strip search - Caught on Camera

Women rights activists protest at the entrance of Brown’s dairy factory in Limuru, in central Kenya.
Women rights activists protest at the entrance of Brown’s dairy factory in Limuru, in central Kenya. Photograph: Handout

Three senior managers from a Kenyan dairy company have been arrested over allegations of indecent assault after they forced a group of female employees to undress in order to find out which of them was on their period.

The incident, which happened last week at Brown’s Food Company’s dairy factory in Limuru, in central Kenya, followed failed attempts by the managers – all three of whom are women – to find out who had put a sanitary towel in the wrong bin.

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