Kenya court jails doctors' union officials over strike

A Kenyan Court has jailed seven union officials for a month over a doctor’s strike that has crippled public hospitals for ten weeks. 

Judge Hellen Wasilwa at Kenya's Labour Court handed down suspended sentences to the officials a month ago, after they ignored an earlier Court order to end the strike.  
Sentencing the seven, the judge said they had provided no reason for the punishment to be deferred. 

The seven officials were handcuffed and driven to jail past placard waving from supporters gathered outside the Court. 

The nationwide strike involving thousands of doctors and nurses began on December 5 and has left public hospitals closed and patients unable to get basic medical care.

SOURCE: NEWS24