Protests broke out in Nairobi and Kenya's second largest city, Mombasa, on Tuesday over the death of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang in police custody on June 8. 
A video posted on Kenyan broadcaster Citizen Television's X account on Tuesday showed two policemen repeatedly striking a man, subsequently identified as Boniface Kariuki, on the head before one of them fired at him with a long barreled gun as he tried to walk away.

Police said late on Tuesday an officer had been arrested in connection with the shooting.

On Wednesday, the victim's father Jonah Kariuki said the 22 year old was in the intensive care unit at the government-funded Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.

"He is on machine support," Kariuki said in a video posted on X by The Standard newspaper. "I have seen he has a heartbeat. I have some hope."

A Reuters journalist saw the young man on the ground on Tuesday with a heavily bleeding head wound, his hand clutching a packet of face masks.

"He was selling masks, it's not that he is a criminal. I have never heard him steal," Kariuki said.

The death of 31 year old blogger Ojwang stoked anger over long standing accusations of extrajudicial killings by security forces in the east African country.

Police had initially attributed his death to suicide, but apologised after an independent autopsy found that his wounds were the result of assault.
President William Ruto, too, said Ojwang had died "at the hands of the police".

Human rights groups, the Law Society of Kenya and the judiciary have expressed concern at the increased incidents of alleged police brutality.

--Reuters--