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| Kenya riots over race-hate cleric | Kenya riots over race-hate cleric |
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| One person has died after Kenyan police fired live rounds at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred. | |
| Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed. | |
| Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him. | Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him. |
| Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history". He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus. | Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history". He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus. |
| Sources at the Kenyatta Hospital have told the BBC that one person has died, while seven others sustained bullet wounds. They are not thought | |
| Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in central Nairobi. | |
| They wanted to present a petition to Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office. | |
| But police had banned the march and intervened. | |
| One banner read: "Release al-Faisal, he is innocent", reports the AFP news agency. | |
| Some reports suggest that the protesters were waving flags of Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. |