Nairobi — Kenya’s high court ordered authorities to allow three major broadcasters to temporarily resume service on Thursday, after they were switched off for covering the opposition leader’s mock inauguration, prompting outrage over press freedom violations. Judge Chacha Mwita ordered the two-week reprieve to hear a petition by activist Okiya Omtatah Okoiti that described the gag as "grossly arbitrary, disproportionate, oppressive and unreasonable". The three private stations — Citizen, NTV and KTN — were shut off on Tuesday morning as they broadcast opposition supporters gathering for the swearing-in of their leader Raila Odinga as "people’s president". They had defied orders by President Uhuru Kenyatta himself, who summoned media bosses last Friday and "expressly threatened to shut down" any station broadcasting the event, the Kenya Editors’ Guild said in a statement. While authorities allowed the mock inauguration to go ahead, interior minister Fred Matiang’i warned on Wednesday...
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