No, the letter concerning the death of health worker Lilian Waithera is not from Human Rights Watch. - iVerify Kenya

No, the letter concerning the death of health worker Lilian Waithera is not from Human Rights Watch.

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Human Rights Watch dismissed the letter in a tweet in February 2023, claiming it was a fake and that they were investigating the impersonation.

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Verified Feb, 19 2023

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Human Rights Watch letter regarding the death of NHIF employee Lilian Waithera

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a tweet shared by Human Rights Watch on February 16, 2023 stating that the letter purportedly signed by a Human Rights Watch staffer regarding the death of National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) employee Lilian Waithera, who was shot while walking with a colleague along Kaunda Street in Nairobi city center, is fake.

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