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Kenya鈥檚 Torture Chambers

Repression against Kenyan opposition; hiding from mobs in US embassy in Pakistan; Erica Jong; Indian big screen scandal; and CIA secret funds for a literary magazine.

In 1986, dozens of Kenyans were detained and accused of belonging to an underground opposition movement. Also, hiding inside the US embassy in Islamabad under attack from angry mobs; plus the secret CIA funding for a leading literary magazine. And Erica Jong on Fear of Flying, plus the scandal over India's lesbian film.

(Photo: Former Kenyan detainee, Wachira Waheire)

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