Kenyan police have arrested more suspects over the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was found on a roadside stuffed in a metal trunk, media reports said on Sunday.
Rights campaigners have issued calls for heightened efforts to protect members of the LGBTQ community after Chiloba's violent death in the Rift Valley of western Kenya.
Chiloba's body was discovered about 40 kilometres outside the Rift Valley town of Eldoret after it was reportedly dumped from a moving car. Homosexuality is taboo in Kenya and across much of Africa, and gay people often face discrimination or persecution. His call was echoed by the African Union's human rights commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso who issued a statement Saturday condemning Chiloba's killing and saying it appeared it was"a result of hate".
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