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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87382, member: 27"]
A ten-hour airport detention and forced deportation hit one of Open Society Foundations' top executives, and Kenya never even filed formal charges.

Brian Kagoro's airport nightmare
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[*]Brian Kagoro got cornered by intelligence officers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
[*]Kagoro is a Zimbabwean lawyer and OSF's Managing Director of Programmes.
[*]His detention dragged on for over ten hours.
[*]Authorities shoved him onto a Johannesburg-bound flight.
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Kenya's justification was paper-thin
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[*]A removal order cited Section 54 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act of 2011.
[*]Zero specific violations appeared on the document.
[*]Formal charges never materialized during the whole ordeal.
[*]OSF slammed the move as legally baseless.
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Funding-unrest claims got torched
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[*]Unnamed government sources accused Kagoro of bankrolling protests against President William Ruto.
[*]OSF called those allegations a flat-out smear campaign.
[*]Kagoro had been visiting Kenya lawfully for a decade.
[*]Foundation funding strictly targets civic engagement, not street agitation.
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OSF's two-decade Kenyan track record
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[*]Open Society Foundations has operated in Kenya since 2005.
[*]Work spans economic policy, climate, and democratic governance.
[*]George Soros established the global foundation.
[*]OSF is pursuing formal clarification through diplomatic channels.
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