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The heavy-handed reaction of security forces to the protests—jail-cell beatings, drive-by abductions and outright killings—has intensified the protesters’ fury.

The last time she saw her son was in a video of his abduction posted on social media on 7 October 2023.

Telling her she was her "only hope", she sent doctored images to show they were "somehow related" and claimed to have memories of life before the abduction, the court heard.

Njagi was also picked up in Kenya last year by masked men during a wave of abductions believed to have been targeting government critics in the country.

President Prabowo himself is accused of human rights abuses, such as the abduction of dissidents, under Suharto’s rule.