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Burundi: Open letter to the Human Rights Council

19.09.2017

Burundi

To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council: Renewing the Mandate of the...

News

“We live in permanent fear”: Burundians’ daily ordeal

24.07.2017

Burundi

Alice (real name withheld) lives in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. Despite the government’s assertions that the coun...

Cases

Repression in Burundi, arrest in the DRC

03.07.2017 - (Last modified: 07.07.2017)

Burundi

Journalist Egide Mwemero was tortured in the DRC for “crimes” committed in Burundi – a case that illustrates the silenci...

Training

Forced into exile, a Burundian lawyer on the frontline

20.06.2017

Burundi

Mr Janvier Bigirimana took part in a TRIAL International training in 2014. How did this new knowledge help him in his fi...

News

Preventing sexual violence through justice and deterrence

19.06.2017

Burundi

On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the international community reiterates the...

News

Burundi before the ICC: is the complementarity assessment satisfied?

01.06.2017

Burundi

In a Communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC), TRIAL argues that Burundi is failing to investigate and pu...

Opinions

Burundi: civil society raises the alarm

18.05.2017 - (Last modified: 08.06.2017)

Burundi

Four representatives of Burundian NGOs visited Geneva. Pierre-Claver MBONIMPA (President of the APRODH), Armel NIYONGERE...

Opinions

Why the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances should go to Burundi

02.05.2017 - (Last modified: 09.10.2017)

Burundi

Citing numerous cases of enforced disappearances, TRIAL International calls on the United Nations Working Group on Enfor...

Cases

A student unjustly jailed for years

26.04.2017 - (Last modified: 17.08.2017)

Burundi

Student and member of the opposition detained Mr. Onesphore (real name withheld) is a student and political opponent. In 2015, while having lunch, he was arrested by police officers and locked up in a cell, before being transferred to a prison, where he is still detained to this day. Like others before him, he is a victim of the wave of arrests of political opponents...

Cases