Gitobu Imanyara

Gitobu Imanyara is lawyer and Journaliste with the Kenya. It is a leader of the fight for the democracy and the respect of the Kenyan constitution since the suppression of the multi-party system in 1982.

Sometimes described like a lawyer of the human rights, often disturbing for the party of EGO places from there, he will pass more than two years imprisoned in districts of high security (of 1987 to 1989).

It founds after its release the newspaper Nairobi Law Monthly, “one of the most daring newspapers of the end of the twentieth century” according to the Democracy Reader. One will retain the article particularly “Discusses historical: Law, democracy, and political multi-parties in Kenya. ” in 1990. Following this publication it will be stopped twice and put in insulation in a psychiatric district.

It amongst other things obtains the support of the worldwide association of the newspapers (AMJ) which gives the to him Plume of gold of freedom in 1991 by describing it like the “one of the rare people of which the inclination with freedom exceeds the fear of being arrested, imprisoned or tortured and who maintains of so many silences vis-a-vis political tyrannies”.

He is today general secretary of the forum of the restoration of the democracy in Kenya.

Quotation: It is possible to crush an human body, because it frail and is finished… But nobody, even powerful, cannot crush a idéal.

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