UPDATE: GOVERNMENT SWITCHES OFF BIGGEST TV STATIONS
BBC
Major TV stations have been pulled off air as the government moves to enforce a ban on live coverage of the protests.
The privately owned NTV and KTN stations say police and communication officials raided their transmission centres and switched off their signals.
"The shutdown of NTV is a direct interference of our editorial operations," NTV's parent company Nation Media Group said in a statement, external.
Another private station, Citizen TV, says the same officials have arrived at their transmission station presumably to pull it off air.
But the stations' coverage is continuing on YouTube and social media platforms.
Protests have spread across the country as more police are deployed to contain them.
Kenya's association of editors has condemned the government's directive to ban live TV and radio coverage of the protests.
It says live coverage is not a threat but a "civil duty to ensure accountability and transparency". "We urge all media to stand firm and respect the 2023 High Court ruling that barred such censorship," the Kenya Editors’ Guild said in a statement, external.
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