After nearly 12 years in the United States, Edwin Okong’o, a second year student at the Graduate School of Journalism, returned home to Kenya this summer on grants from the school and The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley. His return was anything but welcome. Within days of his return Edwin was thrown in jail, falsely charged with “malicious damage to property,” an offense that carries a prison term of 3-5 years. While in jail, he witnessed the brutal beatings of suspects at the hands of the police. Edwin will talk about his trip and the difficultly of covering rural Kenya.