Young protester, Rex, shot dead in Kimathi Street, Nairobi, by police officer during Reject Finance Bill 2024 in Kenya

Within the trending video, Rex, is seen as he was rushed into Bliss Hospital at Archives the place he handed away after being killed. 

Greater than 200 protesters have been arrested in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in ongoing protests in opposition to proposed tax hikes in a finance invoice that is because of be tabled in parliament.

Civil society teams stated that demonstrations and a deliberate sit-down exterior parliament buildings will proceed regardless of the arrest of 210 protesters.

Police hurled tear fuel canisters at a whole lot of demonstrators on Tuesday, forcing companies to briefly shut due to fears over looting.

A lawyer, Wanjohi Gachie, stated that he was protesting on behalf of all Kenyans who can be probably burdened by the tax hikes.

“I’m requesting the police to not arrest or beat us, as a result of we’re preventing for his or her rights as properly,” he stated.

Some main tax proposals within the invoice had been dropped after a Tuesday morning assembly between ruling celebration lawmakers and President William Ruto. 

“They don’t seem to be lenient in any method,” she advised AFP.

Many demonstrators waved indicators emblazoned “don’t pressure the taxes on us”, referring to President William Ruto as Zakayo, the Swahili title for the biblical tax collector Zacchaeus.

Scholar Paloma Njoroge, 22, who was amongst these protesting, rejected pro-government claims that the demonstrations amounted to “social media activism that yields nothing”.