DPP, IG want media barred from Hemed case

The Director of Public Prosecutions
Keriako Tobiko and Inspector General of
Police David Kimaiyo want the case on
the missing suspect Mr Hemed Salim
Hemed be heard in private.
The two have have filed an application
seeking media and members of the public
be barred from a habeas corpus
proceedings on the whereabouts of Mr
Hemed.
Mr Hemed was arrested last month during
the Masjid Musa mosque police raid but
he was later declared missing.
In their application before Justice Edward
Muriithi, Mr Tobiko and Mr Kimaiyo, listed
as first and second respondents
respectively, argued that the media is
being insensitive in their reporting of the
proceeding.
Through senior principal prosecution
counsel Mr Alexander Muteti, the two
respondents further submitted that the
media coverage has endangered the lives
of deputy Mombasa DCIO Inspector Evans
Wesonga and police constable Owino
Okuto.
The two officers have been in the dock
testifying over Mr Hemed’s
disappearance.
Mr Muteti told Justice Muriithi that
photographs of the two officers posted by
unknown person have been circulating on
social media, thereby endangering their
lives.
“It is hard to test who is posting these
images and for what purpose it is serving.
We are not asking this court to limit the
rights of habeas corpus. We are asking
for the limitation of the freedom of
expression. Let the court limit what the
public is doing in a court of law,” he
added.
(Read More at Daily Nation)

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