{"id":37431,"date":"2026-06-18T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37431"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:18:21","slug":"kenya-approves-pay-outs-for-protest-related-abuses","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-approves-pay-outs-for-protest-related-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya approves pay-outs for protest-related abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The government of Kenya is set to compensate nearly 2 000 victims of protest-related human rights abuses, following the release of the Framework for Reparations report on victims of human rights violations by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">President William Ruto says the compensation represents an acknowledgement that harm occurred, while stressing that it should not be interpreted as an admission of guilt.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">According to officials, victims will receive pay-outs next week after a vetting process conducted by the state-funded human rights commission.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The total compensation package is expected to amount to about $15 million.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15612,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-37431","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Government of Kenya is set to compensate nearly 2 000 victims","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37432,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37431\/revisions\/37432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}