03Mar By David MuthamaMarch 22, 20240Legal Aid What We've Been Up To Following our relentless quest under our legal aid program to ensure that the internationally adopted principal of non-refoulment is adhered to, our legal team with the support from well-wishers, Partners and Donors on the 20th March of 2024 successfully obtained a stay of repatriation orders issued against 22 Eritrean nationals by the honorable chief magistrate court, sitting at Kahawa Law courts in an appeal at the High Court of Kenya at Kiambu County within the republic of Kenya. Advocate David Muthama Mululu - Executive Director RLN While the asylum seekers await hearing of the appeal in the high court of Kenya on the 14th of May 2024, they continue to be held in deplorable conditions in different police cells within the urban areas with both their physical and mental health deteriorating due to the harsh conditions in the cells. We are calling upon well-wishers to continue assisting in our continued psycho-social and Advocacy campaign support of these and other asylum seekers held under the same circumstances. The Issue? In this case, the asylum seekers were late last month charged before the magistrate’s court for allegedly being in the country illegally. Despite their un equivocal statements in mitigation that they are asylum seekers, punitive orders for repatriation to Eritrea were issued against them which in our view contravenes the principal of non-refoulment. Conclusion Our Refugee Legal Networks (RLN) team will continue spreading love and support for the many asylum seekers who find themselves in similar predicament in line the various international conventions on Refugee affairs, that Kenya has ratified via refugee laws and policy the latest being the Refugee Act of 2021. One of the underlaying principle being Non-Refoulment.More updates to follow as the case progresses in the High Court at Kiambu Click on pdf above to read more about the petition Author David Muthama View all posts