“These arrests are reminiscent of the wave of press freedom violations that swept across the country in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests, suggesting that police departments failed to learn the proper lessons about the First Amendment from those protests.”
Kenya’s recently enacted Digital Health Act provides strong safeguards of patient data, including the safe transfer of personal, identifiable health data and medical records to and from health facilities in and out of the country.
In its annual survey, RSF highlights the failure of political authorities to protect the press, and the challenge that disinformation presents to journalism in a “super election year”.
