High Court Strikes Down Cap on the Number of Refugees in Kenya; Other Damaging Provisions Remain
Published: 26 Feb 2015
On 23 February 2015, Kenya’s High Court struck down a controversial provision in the newly passed Security Laws (Amendment) Act 2014 (“the Security Act”) which limited the number of asylum seekers and refugees in Kenya to 150,000 persons. Other provisions that are still in place, however, threaten to restrict the rights of refugees by tightening…