It's not a handout. The fundamental thing is to create legal and human rights awareness so people will be able to respond and intervene without needing to call us in Nairobi. They will already have the information, contacts and legal skills. We're not giving fish, we're teaching people to fish. Activitsts say the human rights situation is Kenya has improved since the late 1980s - when high profile lawyers, politicians and academics were jailed for lengthy periods on the basis of confessions through torture.
Monitoring is embryonic and most cases go unreported.
Today, most victims are poor criminal suspects with little education who are unable to afford the services of a lawyer. This is torture that affects people who are not high calibre enough to make the news. It's just swept under the carpet. He gives the recent example of a woman who was shot by an off- duty Flying Squad officer in a bar for refusing to have sex with him. The man has still not been arrested.