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'Mistaken identity': Kenya police free journalist Macharia Gaitho after violent arrest

Moment police officers violently arrested veteran editor Macharia Gaitho
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By  Daily Nation

Kenya's veteran journalist Macharia Gaitho has Wednesday morning been freed after a violent arrest by armed policemen.

Mr Gaitho was seized while leaving his home in Karen and bundled into a waiting Probox.

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