Category: Monitoring Of Human Rights Abuses
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 428 PUBLISHED ON 25 FEBRUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 17 to 24 February 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least one (1) person was murdered in Muramvya province.
The report also deplores the case of one (1) shopkeeper who was arbitrarily arrested by the police and unjustly sentenced by the Gitega district court, and that of one (1) CNL (National Congress for Freedom) party activist who was abducted in Bubanza province.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 427 PUBLISHED ON 18 FEBRUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 10 to 17 February 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least seven (7) people were murdered in various parts of the country.
The report also deplores the case of a CNL (National Congress for Freedom) party activist who was arbitrarily arrested by SNR (National Intelligence Service) agents in Bubanza province.
BURUNDI – Annual report on the human rights situation Edition 2023 :PROMOTING THE RULE OF LAW THROUGH INCLUSIVE DIALOGUE AT NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
SOCIO-POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL CONTEXT
In December 2023, the President of the Republic, Evariste Ndayishimiye, reaffirmed his government’s commitment that “the protection of human rights remains Burundi’s battle horse”, while reassuring that the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2023 came “at a time when Burundi is striving for the well-being of all, without discrimination of any kind”.
But the reality is that, on the one hand, previous human rights violations persisted during 2023 and, on the other, new internal and regional political developments took place with a negative impact on fundamental rights and freedoms.
Highlights of 2023 include continuing violations of political freedoms, an economy marked by growing shortages to the detriment of consumers, and an ambiguous attitude on the part of the Burundian authorities towards the DRC conflict and the Burundian rebel movement Red-Tabara.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 426 PUBLISHED ON 11 FEBRUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 3 to 10 February 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least two (2) people were seriously injured in the province of Gitega.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 425 PUBLISHED ON 4 FEBRUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 27 January to 3 February 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least two (2) people were seriously injured in the province of Mwaro.
The report also deplores the case of one (1) employee of the” Mutuelle de la Fonction Publique”[1] (MFP) who was arbitrarily arrested and detained in the Military Police lock-up in Bujumbura city by Lieutenant-Colonel Melchiade Ntirampeba and that of one (1) CNL (National Congress for Freedom) party activist who was kidnapped in Bubanza province.
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[1] Public Service Mutual Insurance.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 424 PUBLISHED ON 28 JANUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 20 to 27 January 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least seven (7) people were murdered in various parts of the country.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 423 PUBLISHED ON 21 JANUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 13 to 20 January 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least three (3) people were murdered in various parts of the country.
The report also deplores the case of one (1) man who was severely tortured by Imbonerakure in the province of Bubanza.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 422 PUBLISHED ON 14 JANUARY 2024
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 6 to 13 January 2024 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least four (4) people, including two children, were murdered in different parts of the country.
The report also deplores the cases of one (1) young man who was severely tortured by the hill leader and the Imbonerakure in Kirundo province, two (2) women who were arbitrarily arrested by the police in Bubanza province and one (1) young girl who was abducted by agents of the National Intelligence Service (SNR) in Bujumbura city.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT NO. 419 PUBLISHED ON 24 DECEMBER 2023
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 16 to 23 December 2023 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi.
During this period, at least thirty-three (33) people were murdered in different localities in the country, including 27 who died in an armed attack claimed by the Resistance Movement for the Rule of Law (RED-Tabara), while sixteen (16) others were seriously injured in the same attack.
The report also deplores the case of six (6) CNL (National Congress for Freedom) party activists who were arbitrarily arrested and detained in Ngozi province.
SOS-TORTURE BURUNDI REPORT N° 418 PUBLISHED ON 17 DECEMBER 2023
This report by SOS-Torture Burundi covers the period from 9 to 16 December 2023 concerning cases of human rights violations in Burundi. During this period, at least three (3) people were murdered in different parts of the country. The report also deplores one (1) case of a teacher at the Buta communal high school who was violently beaten and seriously injured by militants of the CNDD-FDD party (National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy) in the province of Rutana, as well as the case of two (2) influential members of the CNL party (National Congress for Freedom) who were arbitrarily arrested and detained in the province of Cibitoke. Finally, the report criticises one (1) case of abduction, with the risk of enforced disappearance, of a teacher at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” (ENS) in Bujumbura city.