 Policing has to be carried out within the rule of law and it has to give the rights of the arrested their full protection. Amnesty International's executive director, Irungu Hilton, wants that police handling of the protests risks taking Kenya back to the darkest days of then leader Daniel Arap Moi in the 80s and 90s. 34 years later, we can't have a national police service that is abducting people in the middle of the night, taking them from outside of churches as they go to pray.