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Kenyan journalists came under threat this week from the Kenyan authorities over their coverage of last month’s Westgate mall attack, after video suggesting possible looting of the mall by Kenyan forces was aired on national television.
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In a speech on Wednesday, Kenya’s Inspector General David Kimaiyo lashed out more broadly at news coverage of the investigation into the Westgate attack, alleging that the news reports were meant to provoke and incite negative opinions of the country’s security forces.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists described Wednesday’s police statement and Thursday’s summoning of the media figures as the kind of “forced patriotism” that was “potentially a sign of a downward spiral of press freedom” in Kenya.
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The country is known to have one of the freest and most robust news industries in Africa, but it is currently facing two new bills that could change the industry landscape
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closed-circuit television video from inside the Westgate mall during the attack appeared on national and international news media showing Kenyan security agents carrying full plastic shopping bags out of the Nakumatt supermarket in the Westgate mall,
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In the police briefing Wednesday, Mr. Kimaiyo said the news media “need not distribute or maybe issue statements that can amount to hate speech.”
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The agencies leading and disseminating information about the investigation have also seemingly shifted in a Round Robin among the police, the army and the Internal Affairs Ministry.