Kenyan challenges state over prison facilities
JILLO KADIDA - Sep 22 2009 06:00

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-09-22-kenyan-challenges-state-over-prison-facilities

An intersexed Kenyan has applied to Kenya's constitutional court to be released from Nairobi's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison on the grounds that he belongs in neither a jail for men nor women.

Richard Mwanzia Muasya, who was convicted and jailed for robbery with violence, says he is subjected to continuous human-and constitutional-rights violations at the prison, which is for men only. He claims to suffer inhuman and degrading treatment at the hands of male convicts, prison warders and the public.

Muasya was born with both male and female sex organs, but regards himself as a man.