The state has been directed to file its responses in a case where a lobby group moved to court seeking to compel the state to grant all prisoners their conjugal visits.
Justice Chacha Mwita on Thursday directed the state to file responses and serve them within 14 days.
In the case, three human rights activists, led by Peter Agoro, moved to court under a certificate of urgency, arguing that prisoners in Kenya have a constitutional right to conjugal visits.
They claim that this right has been perpetually and ceaselessly violated, infringed upon, denied, and threatened by the state.
The petitioners argue that there is no valid legal or constitutional justification for denying prisoners conjugal rights.
“The unconstitutional and illegal denial of conjugal rights to prisoners by the 1st and 2nd Respondents has led to severe emotional and psychological consequences for both the prisoners and their family members,” they say.
