Ahlul Bayt News Agency - ABNA - The wife of human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi has pleaded with the Ugandan authorities to let him go. Mr Kimathi is charged with terrorism and murder following the July 11 Kampala bombings.
Mrs Farida Saad Kimathi said her husband, who is the executive coordinator of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, was not a terrorist as she expressed shock over the charges slapped on him by the Ugandan Government. "I know my husband... he is no terrorist. You would know a terrorist right from your house," she told journalists at a news conference in Nairobi.
She spoke as human rights lobby groups continued to pile pressure on both the Kenyan and Ugandan governments to secure Mr Kimathi's release. The groups have asked the government to "exert maximum pressure" on its Ugandan counterpart to have the charges against him and 13 other Kenyans dropped.
"Mr Kimathi has always condemned acts of terrorism ... the Kenyan human rights community therefore finds the terrorism charge against him preposterous," said Ms Muthoni Wanyeki of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. Other activists in Mombasa, under the umbrella of Pwani Coalition of Good Governance, plan to travel to Uganda on October 8.Meanwhile, Muslims have accused Kenyan security authorities of failing them.
Speaking in Nairobi under Supkem, they said the officers were arresting Muslims and shipping them to Uganda.
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