NTV journalist Kennedy Muriithi was on Thursday arrested and roughed up by police officers in Parliament as he was covering the much-anticipated special sitting on Election Laws.
Heavily armed police officers are said to have pounced on Muriithi, who is also the chairman of the Kenya Parliamentary Journalists Association, for recording happenings at the August House.
The reporter's phone was reportedly confiscated with the images and videos he had recorded being deleted, after which he was released.
Opposition leaders led Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo and Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula have raised alarm that police officers were harassing some of their members during the session which the media has been barred from covering.
Mr Wetangula said: "We want to say pole (sorry) to young Muriithi the journalist from Nation who was also brutally arrested by the same police men loitering the corridors of Parliament."
A high number of GSU officers are reported to be at every corner of the Parliament buildings.
