Nairobi, May 2 -- Back in 2010, when Kenya adopted the current Constitution, many people were hopeful that real Press freedom had finally arrived. For years, strict laws barely protected journalists, and the new Constitution seemed like a genuine fresh start.

But more than ten years later, that promise has only partly been kept, and in some ways, it has faded. Instead of creating a bold and fearless press, the new system has brought quieter but more widespread threats to media freedom.

As early as 2010, the year that many celebrated as a new dawn for press freedom, media observers pointed out that although overt violence against journalists had reduced, the absence of reported fatalities, injuries and detentions in new media freedom sta...