Kenyan activist may sue FBI over year in prison

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan activist says he may sue the FBI over their part in interrogating him while he was held without trial for a year in Uganda on terror charges.

Al-Amin Kimathi of the Kenya-based Muslim Human Rights Forum said Tuesday he saw FBI agents in his cell and that Ugandan intelligence agents told him they had received written questions from the FBI and were sharing information with them.

Kimathi was arrested last year in Uganda and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorism over twin suicide bombings in Uganda’s capital in July 2010 that killed 76 people.

Somalia’s militants have claimed responsibility for the attacks and said they did it to avenge Somali civilians killed by Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

A judge dropped charges against Kimathi on Monday.

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS