19 Jul Kongamano La Mapinduzi (KLM) Statement – FREE BONIFACE MWANGI
Nairobi – 19 July 2025 – Boniface Mwangi, a well-known and respected Kenyan Human Rights Defender was arrested by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations at his home in Lukenya, which is just outside Nairobi, this evening.
The police officers have taken him to his offices at Mageuzi Hub where they are currently undertaking a search of the premises. The DCI have confiscated his personal phones and other electronic gadgets during this ongoing process. Boniface Mwangi is yet to be presented to any police station within or outside Nairobi up to this particular moment.
Kongamano la Mapinduzi is aware that Boniface Mwangi’s arrest is part of a larger scheme by the Kenyan state to arrest and persecute legitimate Human Rights Defenders in Kenya – and to additionally try to link them to the waves of state-instigated violence orchestrated during popular protests in June and July 2025 with an intention of painting the protests as violent. This fact is especially clear after the recent arrest and persecution of Mark Amiani, Mulungwa Garang and Mutunge Mwangi – members of the KLM Central Organising Committee – following the June 25th protests.
We at Kongamano la Mapinduzi know that the arrests, trumped-up charges and persecution of patriotic Kenyans will continue – for they are part of a wider scheme to slow down our forward march as a people. That is why we must stand firm as a progressive front, and not allow tyranny and repression to prevail.
Kongamano la Mapinduzi takes this earliest opportunity to ask all those who believe in peace, justice and dignity to extend solidarity to Boniface Mwangi and his family at this moment.
We additionally advise all KLM cadres to maintain a high level of vigilance and discipline. Comrades, be aware of your surroundings, for our shared struggle for a better Kenya needs all of us and our collective energy.
Aluta continua!
Signed,
KLM Central Committee