A Kenyan courtroom on Wed sentenced 3 men to life for stripping in addition to sexually assaulting a adult woman they believed was dressed likewise provocatively.
The verdict capped a illustration that prompted hundreds to march through the working capital missive of the alphabet Nairobi inwards short, fitted have on inwards 2014, calling for an destination to violence against women later a video of the onset was made public.
“We are equal, simply it is every bit of import to honour the dignity of a woman,” primary magistrate Francis Andayi said as he handed out the sentences.
This is what many uncultured men produce out there,” he added.
The fix on at a petrol station on Nairobi’s outskirts, inwards which the victim was stripped, sexually assaulted in addition to had her telephone in addition to cash stolen yesteryear a vehement mob, was captured on photographic telly camera in addition to widely circulated on social media.
It was purpose of a rash of assaults against women in addition to led activists mobilised nether the hash tag #MyDressMyChoice to demonstrate.
The 3 men, Edward Gitau, Nicholas Mwangi in addition to Meshak Mwangi, were technically given the drib dead sentence. However Kenya’s ban on carrying out executions agency the trio volition pass the residual of their lives inwards jail.
AFP/ Photo credit: Ahmed Mohamed (Twitter)