The Government is deeply concerned about the continued deterioration in the political and human rights situation in Kenya which includes the detention of opposition figures as well as restrictions on the activities of political parties, NGOs and the freedom of the press.
Together with our partners in the EU in the past we have made a number of representations to the Kenyan authorities, voicing our concern at the human rights situation in the country. In August 1994 the Government supported a démarche by the European Union to the Kenyan Attorney General voicing its concerns about the trial of human rights activist Koigi wa Wamwere. The EU also made a démarche to the Kenyan Minister for Foreign Affairs on 7 February last in response to the manner in which his Government was addressing ethnic tensions at local level which had included the forced relocation of ethnic groups.