Just hours after nearly 1,000 people
marched through downtown Nairobi to protest the rising wave of assaults on
women allegedly due to improper dressing, AFP is reporting that a mob of Kenyan
men attacked and stripped another woman, claiming she was inappropriately
dressed.
The woman was at a bus stop at Mihango area, Monday evening when she was attacked by a group of men who accused her of dressing indecently. She was beaten up and stripped naked however, the police was quick and it arrested scores of youth at the stage.
Nairobi police criminal investigations chief Nicholas Kamwende said Tuesday
that about 80 of the men arrested were conductors on mini-buses, known as
matatus, where a lot of the recent sexual harassment has taken place. The woman
is currently admitted at the hospital with injuries. The woman was at a bus stop at Mihango area, Monday evening when she was attacked by a group of men who accused her of dressing indecently. She was beaten up and stripped naked however, the police was quick and it arrested scores of youth at the stage.
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