About the Series
On 6 February 2019, Caroline Mwatha-Ochieng went missing. A week later, her body was found at the City Mortuary in Nairobi, the same place where it is said that both her family and the police had earlier on searched without success.
The narrative from the Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) suggests that she had died while procuring an abortion at a clinic in Dandora. This however raised more questions than answers as to the real circumstances of her death.
Caroline was a co-founder of Dandora Community Justice Centre, which was at the time of her death investigating two cases of extra judicial killings by the police. In this series of nine short videos, we present a raft of issues being raised by members of the Kenyan Civil Society who are challenging the police narrative, calling instead, for keener investigation into her death with the aim of ensuring that justice is done.
In the final episode of this 9-part series, CSOs raise the need for further interrogation of the circumstances surrounding Carole Mwatha’s death for the purposes of escalating other discussions on the general state of reproductive health rights in Kenya.
