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Speaking to the BBC at the time, the lawyer, John Maina Ndegwa, said the suspect had been "strangled to confess. You could tell he was in distress, terrified and in anguish."

It is alleged that some victims of the massacre were strangled if they took too long to starve to death.

Prosecutors say that one of the victims was strangled and another showed violent injuries.

“I grew up with these people,” she says in a strangled voice.

The fear that our cultural landscape is being attacked by political forces that would strangle the notion of free speech and competing ideologies is real and justified.