State House Senior Director of Digital Communications Dennis Itumbi was yesterday awarded Sh5 million for illegal detention.
Delivering the judgement yesterday, Justice Joseph Onguto ordered the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General to pay Mr Itumbi for violating his constitutional rights.
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Itumbi had contested his arrest on suspicion of being behind the hacking of the International Criminal Court (ICC) website in 2012 and sought compensation.
Itumbi, who at the time described himself as an investigative journalist, was arrested on March 22, 2012, as the ICC pursued suspects of 2007-2008 post-election violence.
He was released on March 26.
