Protests took place on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, calling for six men who raped a girl and left her in a sewer to be brought to justice. Three of the six were ordered only to cut the grass of the police station as punishment.<br /><br />The sixteen-year-old victim, known only as Liz, was left in a wheelchair, sparking outrage and a one million strong global petition.<br /><br />One woman said: “We want justice and we want the government of Kenya to make sure that the medical bills for Liz are taken care of.”<br /><br />Another woman who spoke to euronews was equally critical of the leniency handed to the attackers: “I am standing with my sisters in Kenya to say it is a violation of a woman’s rights to rape her and then the men go unpunished. That is what we are doing today”.<br /><br />But it was not only women who came together for the protest. One man told us: “It is our issue all together. Me as a man, I am standing here and trying to involve other men so that we can come together and say no to gender based violence.”<br /><br />Crowds descended on the Inspector General’s office to vent their frustrations at the country’s legal process. Lawmakers have condemned the attack in a country with a high incidence of sexual assaults, which are often taken lightly by the police.
