Kenya charges Muslim activist over hate-cleric riot
Al-Amin Kimathi, who organised Friday's rally in support of preacher Abdullah al-Faisal,
denies the charge.
The government blamed ethnic Somalis for the violence and arrested about 300 of them - charging 141 with immigration offences and releasing the rest.
Rights campaigners have accused the government of stoking ethnic enmities.
Along with Mr Kimathi, seven others have been charged over Friday's violence in Nairobi - in which at least one person is believed to have been killed, with several unconfirmed reports of five deaths.
'Exploiting divisions'
The round-up of Somalis caused diplomatic embarrassment when it emerged that 12 Somali MPs had been detained.
They were later released, but not before Somalia's government sent a formal letter of protest.
I do not believe most of the political leaders we have today want a unified Kenya
Hassan Omar Hassan
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Three more MPs, including former Foreign Affairs Minister Ismail Hure Buba, were detained late on Monday. The reasons for their arrests are not clear.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which is government-funded but largely independent,
has launched an investigation into the unrest.
Hassan Omar Hassan, one of the commissioners, told the BBC the government was exploiting hatred for political gain.
"If you look at the political leadership as it stands now, it is a leadership which preconditions itself towards exciting every form of division in our society," he said.
"I do not believe most of the political leaders we have today want a unified Kenya."
Mr Kimathi, head of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, has been prominent in his criticism of the treatment of Faisal.
But Mr Kimathi's lawyers disputed the charge against him,
arguing in court that the charge-sheet was defective because it did not give details of an offence.
Faisal has spent time in jail in the UK for encouraging Muslims to murder Jews and Hindus.
Kenya tried to deport him to The Gambia
Tarps but airlines in Nigeria refused to let him board his connecting flight and so he was sent back to Nairobi.
Since his return, he has been in detention while the government works out a way to expel him.
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