Kenyan courts are pushing back against broad terrorism allegations levelled at participants in the 7 July Saba Saba protests, freeing scores of defendants on bond and cash bail while demanding stronger evidence from prosecutors. Kahawa Law Courts on 10 July released Manyatta Member of Parliament Gitonga Mukunji, journalist James Mbochi and boda-boda rider Stanley Mbuthi on cash bail of KSh300,000 each, rejecting a Directorate of Criminal Investigations request to hold them for a further 14 days for suspected terrorism financing. Other benches have followed suit. An Eldoret court freed 36 demonstrators on KSh5,000 bail apiece on 8 July, while a Makadara magistrate released 125 protesters arrested in Nairobi; nine accused of looting a supermarket remain in custody for an additional week. On 16 July the Kahawa court granted bond to 37 defendants and later extended bail to 44 more, and the Thika Law Courts set KSh100,000 bail—or a KSh300,000 bond—for 58 suspects facing robbery-with-violence charges, sparking protests from families unable to raise the money. The same day, the court dismissed the Director of Public Prosecutions’ bid to detain Democracy for Citizens Party youth leaders James Wanjiru and Wanjiku Muhia, freeing them on KSh50,000 bail each after ruling the evidence insufficient. A separate terrorism case remains active: eight suspects accused of torching Mawego Police Station on 3 July were arraigned on 15 July and remanded at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. The court will decide on their bond application on 22 July. Former Chief Justice David Maraga, who attended the Kahawa hearings, accused the government of “weaponising” the justice system to deny bail and intimidate dissent, warning that courts will not allow terrorism charges to be used as a pretext for prolonged detention.