NEW: Police in Kenya are investigating whether the LGBTQ rights activist and fashion designer Edwin Chiloba was murdered in a hate crime.
The decomposing body of Chiloba, who had spoken of being attacked in the past, was found in a metal box by the side of road near the town of Eldoret on Wednesday and identified a day later. A moto-taxi driver reported seeing the metal box being dumped by men in a car with no license plates, according to theChiloba has spoken out for gay rights in Kenya, where sex between men is illegal and punishable by 14 years’ prison time.
Many rights groups in Kenya–where more than half of all openly gay people have been assaulted—say Chiloba’s murder was likely politically motivated and linked to his sexuality. “The murder itself was terrible, but the callous way his body was discarded makes the situation all the more mortifying! Edwin’s death reminds us that queer bodies continue to be under attack all over the country,” the country’s Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission wrote on Instagram, calling the act “loathsome.
A number of Kenyan gay rights activists have been murdered in recent years, including Sheila Lumumba, who was killed last year, trans activist Erica Chandra, and LGBTQ activist Joash Mosoti, both killed in 2021.
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