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The scenes in Kenya as police used violent tactics to break up demonstrations urging electoral reforms ahead of the general elections next year

Police were caught on camera beating some protesters who had gathered outside the offices of Kenya's electoral commission in the capital Nairobi

Some protesters hid in nearby buildings but riot police flushed them out toward waiting colleagues who then beat them with wooden clubs and kicked them as they tried to flee

Hundreds of protesters were forced to run away from the police during clashes in Nairobi, Kenya. There were battles in the streets between anti-riot police and demonstrators

Paul Wanjama, police chief for Nairobi central police station, said officers detained at least 15 demonstrators who will be charged tomorrow

Violence: Riot police kicked protesters during the clashes, which had started ahead of next year's general election 

The protests are led by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who lost the most recent election in 2013 to President Uhuru Kenyatta. He said polls in 2017 cannot be free and fair if the current election commission remains in place

Protesters were seen running from water canons after Kenya's opposition supporters demonstrated in Nairobi 

Opposition protestors led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga had gathered outside the Indepedent Electoral and Boundaries Comission building

An injured man, covered in blood, crawls out of a building after he was beaten by baton-wielding police officers

One man was noticeably injured in the violent clash

Opposition supporters staged a protest two weeks in a row against the country's electoral body in an attempt to push for the reforms ahead of the next year's general elections

A riot police officer kicks a man while other officer beats him with a baton as they chase supporters. Officers armed with batons confronted hundreds of protesters outside the offices of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the third clash over the issue in less than a month

Several opposition supporters, some carrying rocks, flee from exploding tear gas grenades fired by riot police

Kenyan police fired tear gas and beat protestors with truncheons to prevent opposition demonstrators from storming the offices of the electoral commission to demand its dissolution

A man is knocked off his motorbike by Kenyan riot police officers. The area has seen similar violent protests in recent weeks